@Romeo Fabulini,
Romeo Fabulini wrote:
Haha yes the EDL (English Defence League) go around waving banners but that's about all!
Mind you, the English civilised many parts of the world such as America, and if it wasn't for them the yanks would still be living in wigwams and scalping each other. As the history books rightly say-
"The Spanish went to look for gold, the French went to set up trading outposts, but the English went to stay"...
The early English colonists lived in mud huts; the Norwegians developed the log cabin, I've heard.
The English came to stay, due to religious persecution in England. Also, their women were hardy enough to stay, as the story goes. They did not mate with the natives, as the Spanish did, since they had a concept of being some sort of pedigree. What that is, I do not know.
Only Episcopaleans today, and perhaps, Presbyterians, in my opinion, look to Mother England as the origin of their ancestors, even though many WASP's did originate from Britain. But, since these other WASP's evolved into present day Baptists, and a bunch of Protestant denominations, they consider American a breed apart from the British, regardless of ancestry.
While there are American Protestants, that due to genealogical research into their family's origins, think it is nice when some ancestor can be traced to someplace in Britain, it is only when an ancestor can be found to have been germane to a place in American history that the pride really is shown. In effect, Britain can keep their pride of ancestry; however, most Americans, really feel that America has already been around long enough to develop a culture that really is not a knock-off of Britain. You can take credit for the American Southern dialect. That is supposedly how British spoke in the 18th century, I've heard.
