In 1887 Wilde wrote: `We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language'
Plagiarised by Shaw in 1951 to:
"Two nations separated by a common language"
We tend to follow each other in trends not all good.
* We are nearly as obese as Americans
* Black on Black gun crime fuelled by intellectually challenged American "Gangster Crap" (not a spelling mistake) is at an all time high.
* Security guards in Schools. Good and Bad TV.
* USA gave us crap like Darma and Greg but we got are own back by giving them crap like The Office and X Factor trash.
* But they also gave us CSI and Family Guy both Brilliant shows.
What goes around comes around. I like the states; lucky to have worked on the East Coast and New York, poles apart in everything.
All in all the Yanks tend to me more polite and their attitude to GA refreshing compared to Europe.
And I wish we had NYPD on the streets of London rather than The Bill.