Re:A book claims that Americanisms will have absorbed the En...
by mjburgess on Saturday December 30, 2017 @04:09AM
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Sure, I've considered that too.
That's the missing context British people have when opining about the American way of doing politics: that it's keeping a lid on something that here we do not have.
However I think it's more than that. The places that have the most european sense of humor and way of live are those with the highest population density. New York / Boston humour is quite close. Yet, NY -- the most dense US city -- is still only have as dense as paris.
The US is incredibly sparse. Everything is very far away from everything else even within cities: a shop is a drive from another shop.
I suspect that does something peculiar to public spaces.
The recent civil war and racism doesn't help though.
That's the missing context British people have when opining about the American way of doing politics: that it's keeping a lid on something that here we do not have.
However I think it's more than that. The places that have the most european sense of humor and way of live are those with the highest population density. New York / Boston humour is quite close. Yet, NY -- the most dense US city -- is still only have as dense as paris.
The US is incredibly sparse. Everything is very far away from everything else even within cities: a shop is a drive from another shop.
I suspect that does something peculiar to public spaces.
The recent civil war and racism doesn't help though.