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American patriotism

say sometimes Americans can take it too far with how much they love their country how do you mean like it's annoying yeah definitely that's great could you give us an example of...

Course: Britain and other culturesSection: British views of the USASubtitles: en

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say sometimes Americans can take it too

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far

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with how much they love their country

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how do you mean like it's annoying yeah

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definitely that's great could you give

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us an example of the last time you were

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ironic about

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something no I'm British I never notice

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when I'm being ironic it just comes

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naturally doesn't it yeah it's just what

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we do and sarcasm it seems Seems they've

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tried to uncomp edate the language cuz

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English is difficult and so their

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spelling is different right but I always

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find that annoying and also

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pronunciations I often find that um we

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are kind

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of like when you especially like younger

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people you you hear that they're really

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influenced by American pronunciation

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they realize the word lever rather than

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lever and those sorts of things and

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that's another thing that really annoys

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me perfect cuz I say we're English we

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don't say that so humor is a big

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difference you think between other

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and

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yeah they import a lot of British

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sitcoms we don't import I mean they

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import British sitcoms and make them

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American and we don't import American

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sitcoms and make them

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