Date Posted:00:47:32 01/20/08 Sun Author: Pilot Author Host/IP: mail22.anonymouse.org / 85.195.119.22 Subject: Re: When Brits and Americans talk about 1776, Is there a sense of awkward silence? In reply to:
Robert
's message, "When Brits and Americans talk about 1776, Is there a sense of awkward silence?" on 03:27:01 12/23/07 Sun
>When Americans and Brits talk about the American
>revolution, is there a sense of awkward silence? You
>an "oppressee" talking to an "oppressor". From the
>American point of view 1776 was a legitimate war of
>freedom and revolution. But for the Brits, it is
>treason to the crown. How does one meet halfway with
>history?
Why should they be? That happened 231 years ago. Vast majority of Americans immigrated here years and centuries after the American Revolution mostly Irish, German, Italian, and Polish immigrants. They really got nothing to do with the U.K. anymore (apart from a "similar" language) the same way the English people got nothing to do with German, Danish, and Norwegian people in northern Germany and Scandinavia.
