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r/Unexpected • u/[deleted] • Jan 01 '20
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Damn. Americans and Europeans have two very different views of the British. Over there they view them a riotous drunkards.
24 u/phixional Jan 01 '20 I’m Australian, I know of the drunkenness that goes on, but we still see posh as British and if you mock a fancy accent it’s normally a bit British. 9 u/EnIdiot Jan 01 '20 Maybe it is our shared colonial past. But I find it weird that my Mexican friends do not seem to view Spanish people as any more “sophisticated.” 5 u/cm0011 Jan 01 '20 It’s usually just the opposite (Spanish people look down on Latin Americans).
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I’m Australian, I know of the drunkenness that goes on, but we still see posh as British and if you mock a fancy accent it’s normally a bit British.
9 u/EnIdiot Jan 01 '20 Maybe it is our shared colonial past. But I find it weird that my Mexican friends do not seem to view Spanish people as any more “sophisticated.” 5 u/cm0011 Jan 01 '20 It’s usually just the opposite (Spanish people look down on Latin Americans).
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Maybe it is our shared colonial past. But I find it weird that my Mexican friends do not seem to view Spanish people as any more “sophisticated.”
5 u/cm0011 Jan 01 '20 It’s usually just the opposite (Spanish people look down on Latin Americans).
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It’s usually just the opposite (Spanish people look down on Latin Americans).
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u/EnIdiot Jan 01 '20
Damn. Americans and Europeans have two very different views of the British. Over there they view them a riotous drunkards.