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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mustard" data-source="post: 416531" data-attributes="member: 46">So many Americans are basically the descendants of Britain's and Germany's heretics and criminals, and of adventurers who were looking to "start over". That's the culture of the US, just as Australia is Britain's old penal colony, thus the loveable rogueishness, yet "pragmatic realism", of Aussie culture. Americans are mostly dreamers, especially the newer ones and the ones who tend to travel southwards and westwards.Britain is an old society. As a result, it's far more sarcastic and cynical in a way that a lot of "aspirational" Americans would just never understand, except perhaps in the northeastern USA (and parts of the midwest), i.e. the oldest civilized part of the country, which were once the industrial heartland of the US yet are now the Rust Belt, or "left behind" rural areas.</blockquote>