On 2013-08-03 12:04:08 +0000, Baz said:

sacha wrote in :

On 2013-08-03 10:50:38 +0000, Broadback said:

I have subscribe to "rec.food.cooking", as I think several people who
post here are. It makes you realise what a difference there is between
us and them, foreign in all but language and that differs more as time
passes by. do other here agree, or am I wrong?

A few well-travelled Americans have commented to me that a lot of their
compatriots are very insular in their outlook and really do not
understand others' way of life, choices, or reasons for doing things
different to the USA. Comparatively few Americans have passports. But
when you think of the size of their country, they can do everything
there except enjoy the culture of others. And if they're not
interested in that, why go outside America? Quite recently, I used the
word 'tap' (as in water) to an American who didn't know what I meant.
I'd forgotten that in USA it's a faucet.

I think it's where you go in the USA, or where the person you are talking
to comes from.
As you know there are Irish, Italian, Chinese, English etc. in the USA.
As you say, sacha, why go to these countries when their cultures are on
your doorstep. Who needs a passport other than a tourist who has an urge
and plenty of money to do it?
I read somewhere, recently, that by year 2135 we will all be the same
colour(or is it color) due to the inter-breeding of our race over this
short period.
The colloquial laguage will always remain, Seemingly.

Baz

Apparently, some current American forms of speech are olde Englishe and
went over with the Pilgrim Fathers!
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Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon