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Offline Jacqui Harvey

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Are you a Brit or a secret American
« on: November 28, 2013, 09:34:51 AM »
Take the test on American Independence Day and see which country you belong to
http://metro.co.uk/2013/11/28/happy-thanksgiving-are-you-american-or-brit-4187628/
« Last Edit: November 28, 2013, 09:47:02 AM by Jacqui Harvey »



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Re: Are you a Brit or a secret American
« Reply #1 on: November 28, 2013, 11:13:40 AM »
Now I know that Thanksgiving is a group of plucky Brit Ex-Pats celebrating their first year or so since arriving in a foriegn land, but once again good old U S of A culture has taken over or perhaps dominated something that the Brits were doing well enough with out them  ;)

This link does show has all pervading American culture has become in the UK.  Look at how Halloween is now bigger in many parts of the country than Bonfire Night, and by the looks of this THanksgiving is starting to creep into our calendar as a celebratory event as well.  Or perhaps that's what the retailers and restauranters want : :)

Well even though the Brits, or rather the English, invented it, we should look upon it as a gift that we bestowed upon the septics for them to enjoy forever, and lets encourage them to keep the gift their side of the water, and we'll carry on ignoring it.

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Re: Are you a Brit or a secret American
« Reply #2 on: November 28, 2013, 12:20:04 PM »
Halloween has always been big in Scotland, as an English woman who moved to Scotland after we got married.  I was amazed to see all the Celebrations for Halloween in Scotland.   This was when their was nothing much going on in England and no trick or treat. 
The Scots always made a huge thing of Halloween and the children always went out guising. My kids loved doing it. There was no nasty trick in the guising, they learned songs, jokes and poems before they went out and came home with lots of sweeties. 
So, the Americanisation of Halloween was only in England, we always had it in Scotland.




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