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Asking Britons about Americans

hello welcome to easy english so today i'm on the beach and i want to know the people of brighton think of their cousins across the pond this is what brits think of americans he...

Course: Britain and other culturesSection: British views of AmericansSubtitles: en

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hello welcome to easy english so today

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i'm on the beach and i want to know the

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people of brighton think of their

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cousins across the pond

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this is what brits think of americans

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here we go

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what is what are your general thoughts

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on americans

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my general thoughts on americans are i

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think they're quite brash they're quite

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loud people

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[Music]

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i was actually

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kicked off facebook

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for 24 hours for making a remark about

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the

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americans there's a big contrast between

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everybody it's not just england but

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everybody's awareness of american

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culture through

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films and tv series and stuff and then

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how it is in real life and they have a

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reciprocal lack of understanding of

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other people's cultures partly maybe

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because

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their media system is just

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so big and it pumps out so much stuff

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like they'll remake everything right the

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ring

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uh the office the this to that they

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remake it in their own light so

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they

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