{"id":189,"date":"2002-02-20T12:40:48","date_gmt":"2002-02-20T19:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2002\/02\/how-the-brits-see-americans\/"},"modified":"2002-02-20T12:40:48","modified_gmt":"2002-02-20T19:40:48","slug":"how-the-brits-see-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/02\/20\/how-the-brits-see-americans\/","title":{"rendered":"How the Brits see Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#8212; Moira Breen&#8217;s piece on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,46079,00.html\">FOXNews.com<\/a> is on a theme that drives my Brit wife up a wall. Breen says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nA common theme in blog-land over the past few months has been the persistent misperception of America as some adolescent version of Europe by opinion-writers across the Atlantic. Even some pro-American British writers appear to believe that America comprises two types only: the Anglo-Saxon gentleman and the yokel.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nand she quotes from the Spectator and the Telegraph to support her point. The trouble here, according to my expert source, is that these papers occupy a tiny niche on the ideological and cultural spectrum that&#8217;s not truly representative of anybody&#8217;s views except for their miniscule readership and staff. British newspapers don&#8217;t make any pretense of objectivity; they flaunt their ideology and people buy the ones that reinforce their prejudices. There is a segment of the British population that sees the leveling of the class system as a horror, just as there are orthodox Hindus in India who feel that caste-mixing is the mother of all crimes, and such people have to assign Americans to a low plane in the social hierarchy. One shouldn&#8217;t overgeneralize such attitudes.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212; Moira Breen&#8217;s piece on FOXNews.com is on a theme that drives my Brit wife up a wall. Breen says: A common theme in blog-land over the past few months has been the persistent misperception of America as some adolescent version of Europe by opinion-writers across the Atlantic. Even some pro-American British writers appear to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/02\/20\/how-the-brits-see-americans\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How the Brits see Americans&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-33","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}