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May 04, 2005
Are the British Like Americans?
Diane Roberts, former editorial writer for The St. Petersburg (Florida) Times, "who lives in England several months a year," opined in a May 1, 2005 Perspective that, "Americans visiting Britain are secretly relieved, even delighted, to find that for a foreign country, things aren't so, well, foreign. There are Friends reruns on TV and Diet Coke in the vending machines," she wrote. "The British have the Gap and Starbucks. They have a born-again Christian running the country, and they have troops in Iraq. They're just like us."
"Or maybe not," she said. "Despite being the closest of allies, Britain and the United States are oceans apart on many of the central issues of the day. Capital punishment. The AIDS epidemic in Africa. Palestinian rights. The environment - especially the environment." Here's more of her perspective.
Posted by Munir Umrani at May 4, 2005 02:47 AM
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