March 2012
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I do wonder what England looks like from the outside right now… a country obsessed with rancid meat pies and petrol…
…. and then I remember that no one outside cares very much what the English get up to…
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For a century, underground railroad ran south |... →
This is an interesting article about the Gullah people of South Carolina, and the Geechees of Florida & Georgia.
The last bit (quoted below)… it struck me that that distinction (if you get past the obvious wrong headedness of it all) is a fascinating difference in cultural history.
As I know next to nothing about cultural history, that’s as far as I got- but it made me think.
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There are a whole bunch of things that people in Britain mock or turn their noses up at, that people in America take completely for granted.
I thought of this as I enjoyed my bacon, sausage, pancake and syrup breakfast this morning.
I’m sure if the Brits would just try it, they’d get it…but in all the years I’ve tried to explain, I’ve yet to meet one that didn’t...
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