I will joke with Americans, but hopefully do not think I make fun of, and if I joined a place where that a specific thing I would leave.
People evolve, people left European countries to go to a better life in the USA many were sent as indentured servants with little chance of escaping poverty often sent for as little as thieving a piece of bread when starving, and that was enough excuse to literally turn them into indentured slaves, not something I am proud to have as my history, but we seriously cannot know whose relatives were the sufferers or the inflict or sin most cases so I do not judge, to my mind the US has been a bastion of good helping present Europeans (often thanklessy
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I refer to the scones versus biscuits purely because many of those Europeans took their heritages and mixed them with others and terminology has moved on, to be honest it has moved on here too, but the roots have commonality, I am not calling yours or ours better or copies they have evolved as our peoples evolved, here in the Uk people from different areas vie with each other often in less than polite manner, I have Welsh, Irish English forebears my pre marriage surname infers a long gone Scottish link, I often question people about their ancestry their beliefs their opinions and do not expect them to align with mine, I personally like variety as long as it is a leave others in peace to their beliefs, I have no wish nor right to impose my preferences on others, and am open to learning new, that said I am a pretty traditional Christian raised person who if possible would do others no harm and if it does not put me out beyond reasonable will also help others. not perfect, do not expect perfection, but am happy to find it….a nice cream scone and fresh strawberries gives me a few minutes of near perfection….locks lips.
A wicked sense of humour, a some what twisted sense of fun, no harm intended, a sense of knowing when to run and avoid strangulation a healthy skill
English derives from Latin, French and German has lashings of Viking, Americans still surprising call their Language English rather than distancing themselves, your country has tonnes of amazing accents, we are the same and different, and just as in the UK different areas call the same thing different names across the pond you do the same, fact of life, FYI we play with you because we can….especially here on the internet my side of the pond I do not need to run fast to avoid a slap…..grins, slaps your back affectionately and runs (metamorpicaly of course) like hell…….wheeeeeeeeeeeeee……
ooh, I have America relatives too, half Italian New Yorkers, although one or two have gone south, and one has come back here with her mum when she divorced her GI (‘she cheated not him) He and my dad were thick as thieves. You might be related!
