What are some cultural differences between the UK and US
Oh well haven't gone yet to USA hopefully soon.UK maybe later ...But I have friends I have met from diffetent countries.
"Two countries divided by a common language": the use of English & shared history makes people think the two are close, but there are a lot of very real cultural differences..."
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tea and cofffee.Be posting if I can
In the US they eat Taffy.
I think.
Tofu I know Taffy I am lazy to google
Economically and Religious are concerned
I think they both differ
cheeky cheeky bang bang
Sports is a good point.
Do you play one of them?
Drinks - In the United Kingdom they usually drink beer at room temperature and avoid using ice but in America it is served with ice.
These are some of the main cultural difference between the United Kingdom and the United States.
Also many foods are renamed in the USA such as chips and are unable to spell words correctly such as sulphur where they call it sulfur (yes the spell checker doesn't like the yank spelling)
Also large parts of the USA are very set in their ways such as religion and, in some cases more people are be-leaving the earth is flat than in the past.
Oh yell and we drive on the right side of the road.
Hope you make it here.
only kidding
GentlemanJames....cast your eyes down to the bottom of my comment....it was...err...tongue in cheek....errr...a joke.....chill out man
The English aren't as 'precious'. They don't take things so personally.
Americans like to think they are open, but they are a deeply conservative people. Religion is also much more important to Americans. Although supposedly a secular society, religion infiltrates everything. It doesn't in England.
Americans are sweetly naive in lots of ways. They also believe in the great American dream, which is nice. They generally don't travel, so don't know much about other countries apart from what they see in TV. The English tend to travel more. Although a lot of the older generation still have a colonial feeling of superiority over anybody who isn't English, including other countries of the UK.
English are more rooted in history as it is an old country. Americans don't really have the same concept of history, being a relatively newer country.
I know nice Americans. I've been there. I have relatives there. I also know nice English people, been there, have relatives.
You'll meet good and bad in any society.
Ysabeljhen WTF have you written???? I demand you learn the difference between football and socce....soccer isn´t even a real game!!
You'll meet good and bad in any society.
They'd topple over and land at your feet.
Incase you don't know
Do you mean football? Football and soccer are the same. Soccer is the American English term to call Football. If you live in the USA, you use "soccer". Otherwise, you use "football".
Just going back to blog's topic
They are just different words for the same game. It's the game that involves trying to kick (or head) a ball into a goal. It has the famous FIFA World Cup competition. “Soccer” is the word used in the United States of America and some other countries, but even in England "football" is sometimes called "soccer". In England, the use of the word “soccer” seems to have declined in my lifetime, but it is still used.
In fact "soccer" is derived from "Association Football", the original English term for the game. Hence the word "soccer" is not as "American" as a lot of people think.
The game called "football" (or American Football) in the USA is not soccer of course. It's a game that's more like rugby than soccer. Because that’s called football in the US, it’s natural that Americans use a different word (soccer) for what Europeans and others call “football”.
Incidentally, rugby is sometimes called "rugby football", which is its full name.
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very nice I like the way you compare and sounds very interesting to think that there is a lot to learn.Thank you
Nice of you to quote those
that really shows the cultural differences even in this site we can define who is who
Traditional American breakfast