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Originally Posted by htb
Ah, you're conflating ideological content with manner of delivery.
I find English policies, to euphemize, generally not to my liking. But the immediate dialectical rigor demanded by MPs is more exciting -- American committee hearings play out like bagpipes, partisan declamations that follow a persistent, uniphonous drone -- and not at all forgiving of reticence. That seems a high valuation of social extroversion.
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This I would concurr. UK politics is less about acceptance and more about being right. They are prepared to argue and will fight back properly... mind you isn't that more about the individuals taking part than the country in general?
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Originally Posted by htb
This is demonstrably not true. Look at opinion polls, then political cartoons, then entertainers, then personally question a sampling of members of the corresponding party. You've either internalized a characterization of America (which might mean introversion, in which case you're right) or have gotten your sense of our country from the German press (in which case I'm right). Certainly, your prime minister defends his policies just meters away from scoffing backbenchers, but then, he is not an autonomous executive.
In America, there are much more complex dynamics between typical business and social types -- and more places in which these interactions occur than those receiving the most international attention. I nod to the theory you're trying to establish, but the UK and US are in too many ways divergent. Your lot may be provincial; but we're varied across the continent ourselves.
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I beg to differ, it is the states which is provincial in that almost all opinions are based on self referential measures. The US is the measure by which all others are to be judged. I'm sorry but the US has more of a jingoistic attitude than any other nation I can think of.
As for the president being subjected to question and derision, I thought that all famous actors over there had to suffer the whims of the press?
The whole thing about the US assuming it is correct in it's approach to life whilst there are so many who suffer under their rules and the manner in which other's are
told that they are wrong or will conform. That whole attitude says ESTJ to me.
Oh and I guess that right about now it will be assumed that I'm anti-american... all I'll say is that would be an incorrect assumption.