How come there are so many Brits who adore/wants to become an American?

^ Seriously. Reading through them just depresses me every time, and it's like ANY time I'm on here. Like I remember one time on the 4th of July, I saw this thread about how it was basically a "We Hate the UK Day." I mean, really?

I'm moving to the UK for a year in like 2 weeks and I don't need this. I really hate all the crap that gets talked about my nationality and my country on here. I don't want to know if some of the British people I meet will automatically assume I'm a cultureless idiot. And you know, it's funny. I don't know about you, but in my entire 20 years of life living in America, in an American family, I've never ONCE heard anyone say to someone else or to me, seriously or joking, "The UK sucks," "British people are crap/stupid," or anything to that effect. And especially not comments like, "The UK has cameras watching every public area in the country. Isn't that sooooo stupid according to our cultural standards?! Stupid, inferior 61 million people." If anything, though we definitely have our cultural and political differences, the vast majority of Americans have a genuine respect for the UK and British people, probably more so than any other country. I know I grew up idolizing the UK.
And I promise if there was a comparable American student site, we would not be criticizing, or even discussing, the UK and its people multiple times daily. I just don't understand why every thread remotely connected to America has to have these kinds of mean-spirited comments on it.

Ya, for the most part, Americans are very patriotic, but that doesn't mean it's because we hate you. And ya, we sometimes make dumb, light-hearted jokes about British teeth, the weather, or their stereotype of being socially reserved, but never anything truly offensive with the kind of deadly serious, unprovoked venom I see on here way too often, which I experienced for myself in real life the last time I was in the UK 4 years ago.
Fortunately, I know British people are not all the same. And if anyone's small-minded enough to not like me this upcoming year because my accent sounds "annoying" or I must be a "dumb Yank," then that's their own pathetic loss. It's fine to disagree with American politics, but seriously, just putting down 300 million people in a country the size of the European continent doesn't make you any smarter or better. So just get over yourself, grow up, and don't do it. I sincerely doubt 99% of the people doing it have spent any significant amount of time here.

I'm no less excited about living in the UK since I found this website a few months ago, and definitely no less proud of where I come from. I just had some illusions shattered, I guess.
I normally hate confrontation, and this will probably push my rep into the negatives, but whatever. I'd be disappointed in myself if I didn't say it.

Because America have more money can make better quality media. Do you think the BBC would be able to produce lost or heroes?

I'm getting pretty sick of these threads and the fact that they turn into bash America threads.

How many of you have actually spent any amount of time there? Making the assumptions that you do based on "what you know" about America is like us saying that you all either speak the Queen's English and go fox hunting every weekend, or you all have a really bad Dick Van Dyke cockney accent. The media is way off in its portrayal of normal Americans and normal American life and culture.

It's every bit as ignorant as you all want to believe that Americans are...tbh, the two countries aren't all that different in terms of day-to-day life .

Oh yeah, forgot that one. And tbh beats most of MTV, doesn't it?

Yep i agree BUT you have to admit Americans do the same towards us.

Talking of MTV, arn't they supposed to be making an American version of skins....but with no sex...or drugs...or swearing.

Doubt it will work tbh. But then again ever since they got rid of the original cast, Skins hasnt been as good.

Not much Liberty

Not really...

Americans, widely unaware of how much anti-Americanism there is in the UK, actually love you. A lot.

By the way.