Andy Pandy writes:
> Of course, but it would be incredible if the US, as the country with
> by far the largest population in the "developed" world, *didn't* have
> such an influence on the rest of the world.
I didn't say it was inexplicable; I said it was so. And it was the
fact of it, not any proffered explanation, that the previous poster
scoffed at.
> However on my trips to the US I've been surprised at the influence
> UK culture has had on the US. Even the Spice Girls FFS (well that's
> revenge!).
Heh...
Yeah, there's more and more of that thanks to the communications
explosion brought on by the Internet. But Americans have long
had a fascination with things British. It's the "mother country,"
for one thing. And the British Invasion of the 1960s -- the Beatles,
the Stones, et al. -- sparked the idea that British things are hip.
Geoff
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"Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the
vanquished were of course exterminated. -- Voltaire
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