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Yu_Bum_suk · Joined: 25 Dec 2004

Just a note - I don't mean ones *in* the UK or USA, but ones you meet who are overseas.

tfunk · Joined: 12 Aug 2006 Location: Dublin, Ireland

I'm Irish. Generally the Brits here share a similar sense of humor. I'd still hang with Americans though (if I thought they weren't planning an invasion of Ireland Wink

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PRagic · Joined: 24 Feb 2006

My core group of friends come from the US, Canada, England, G.B., and Australia. Some of the best people I've ever met. Having said that, some of the biggest a-holes I've met here and in other countries have been American, Canadian, British and Australian.

You can't generalize. Take it on a person by person basis, I figure. I wouldn't want anyone passing judgement on me based on the colour of my passport.

Draz · Joined: 27 Jun 2007 Location: Land of Morning Clam

I don't have a preference. Weird question.

tfunk · Joined: 12 Aug 2006 Location: Dublin, Ireland

It is a weird question, but I do believe you can generalize about people. It is only generalization and nobody is holding a gun to your head.

Do British people generally have a different way of expressing themselves than Americans? I think so...generally speaking.

Draz · Joined: 27 Jun 2007 Location: Land of Morning Clam

PRagic · Joined: 24 Feb 2006

Yes, they do have different ways of expressing themselves, OP, and different senses of humour to be sure. But that wasn't your original question!

tfunk · Joined: 12 Aug 2006 Location: Dublin, Ireland

michaelambling · Joined: 31 Dec 2008 Location: Paradise

My experience:

Brits - Better sense of humour, but tend to complain more about being away from home. I once had a Brit rant about how the country in question (not Korea) was barbaric because they did addresses differently than the UK.

Americans - Sadly, my fellow countrymen tend to be walking stereotypes--dim, and either a redneck or a bleeding heart tree-hugging hippie. They're usually more open minded to different cultures than the Brits, but they don't pick up the native habits as well as the Brits do.

Unfortunately, most expats I have met in the various countries I've been in have been very, very weird people. Just sayin'.

Dev · Joined: 18 Apr 2006

I've worked in a big ESL school that had teachers from all countries and found that the Brits that we had in our school did not mix with the other teachers. It was Americans, Canadians, Aussies and Kiwis on one side of the room and Brits on the other.

The Brits just seemed to want to talk about all things British like football, places in England, The Office TV show and Brit techno music.

Shame for me because I had hope to make some Brit friends while overseas as well.

The friendliest people were the Aussies. I'm Canadian BTW.

Chris2007 · Joined: 20 Mar 2007

bjonothan · Joined: 29 Apr 2003 Location: All over the place

I believe that each nationality has their own character traits. Aussie people are quite often friendly, but there are way too many dickheads from Australia. Canadians are way too proud of their country and mention Canada all the time which is a big turn off. If you can get past the fact that Yanks have very little knowledge of other countries and can sometimes be blindly patriotic, they are some of the best people to hang out with overseas. Poms/Limeys are famous for having a whinge, but are always good fun. The Irish are usually a good craic. Same goes for the scots.

I was born and raised in Australia, but when I have been overseas, I only ever met wankers. When I came back I realised how many there are here. Especially if you go to Queensland.

I have a great friend that I shared with in Korea 7 or 8 years ago. He is Canadian. At times, I get sick of hearing about Canada from him.

I give the Poms and the yanks top marks and reckon that I would rather meet either nationality over Aussies and Canadians any day.

mole · Joined: 06 Feb 2003 Location: Act III

As a purebred TEXAN, I find both choices equally unpalatable.

toonchoon · Joined: 06 Feb 2009 Location: Gangnam

as long as they're cool, i don't care where they come from.

and as long as they speak English, and i don't mean local slang that I can't understand. that shit gets tedious and its more annoying then having a conversation with a Korean cos you know that with a Brit, Aussie, Kiwi etc, you all speak the SAME language.

JohnnyEngrish · Joined: 13 Oct 2008 Location: South Korea

Poms are easier to relate to simply because they share the same humor style, and sports.

If you are not from the US or Canada, its pretty hard to have a talk about ice hockey, American football or baseball ....

I guess Yanks get pretty sick of long-winded bitching about soccer, rugby and cricket.... and might find Vic Reeves or the Fast Show a bit weird...