[OT] Do young people in the UK hate America?
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A 17 year old goth looking girl from Manchester replied “Any city jn America”
And there are lots of Reddit/quora threads from young Brits who felt the UK didn’t need the US to win WW 2. Monty and Harold Alexander were far more intellectually superior commanders than any US general.
Older folks seem to appreciate the US but not the the young ones. Would love to hear input from Londonguy.
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Doubt either group is a majority.
Who knows
I think you’re correct. I read a decent amount of WW 2 history and a common quote coming out of the UK is that WW 2 was won with “British brains, American money and Russian blood”
The majority opinion seems to be they may not have won the war - but they wouldn’t have lost it either. It would have been a stalemate. They seem to have a sense of invisibility after holding up during the blitz and felt the Royal Navy would have stopped any Channel invasion
I understand why the UK can't teach their students the truth that we won The Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, they backed the wrong horse in the Civil War, and we saved Europe thrice in the 20th century (winning the Cold War is the hat trick). A little gratitude would be nice.
Btw - the country’s official name would be Gross Britannien right now if the U.S. stayed nuetral. We’d be fine though.
Any of you ever loan a relative money? I did. My advice - don’t do it. You do not get gratitude as a result. You get resentment.
Probably the same dynamic with the US/UK
Some of the comments in this thread really made me laugh, especially the one where we’d be called Gross Britannian, that’s such a stupid statement.
The last time we were successfully invaded was 1066, our defences weren’t so strong then.
By the way you didn’t come to our aid, we won the Battle of Britain without any help from the USA. You did come to help liberate Europe and defeat the Germans but please don’t think YOU won the war, the Allied Forces won the war.
As a nation we give thanks to your effort in Europe during WW2. It certainly shortened the war.
There’s good and bad in every race, no race is perfect, not even Americans
Its not really the job of taxpayer dollars and America to end slavery worldwide. The slaves they had back then were brought in from other countries.
"They are overpaid, oversexed and over here!"
Great Britain certainly won the Battle of Britain with their radars and Royal Ai Force, but it was made possible by a US policy known as lend lease, which allowed the sale of arms to the allied forces, which mainly flowed through England as most of Europe was occupied by the Germans. As a result of the winning of the Battle of Britain it enabled the the US when it finally entered the War in 1941, to have a decisive base of operations close enough to reach occupied Europe, as a result the American led allies were able to beat the Germans and create a strong western front, giving the Russians breathing room to push the Germans out of their own country.
At which point we were able to defeat the Japanese and win the war.
Even Winston Churchill himself acknowledged the Americans were the indispensable nation in winning that war.
Don’t forget that the reason why the peace was successful was because of the American people and the implementation of the Marshall plan.
lg is correct about the Brit’s preserving their country with their own forces, before we were able to enter the war in 1941, but they did have plenty of assistance from Roosevelt and the United States which enabled them to be victorious.
You wrote, and I quote:
“There’s good and bad in every race, no race is perfect, not even Americans”
Do you people consider Americans a race of people?
How do you people in England classify the races and how do you differentiate between race, nationality and ethnicity?
Asking for a friend.
Well there are Tottenham fans and then there are decent people.
HUH where did that come from?