Canada, the UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand

Oh, grow up! Not everything is about the USA.

[quote]There aren't any other countries like that, are there? Where they speak the same language and can come to America and get around — right?

Francophone countries, Spanish-speaking countries, German-speaking countries...

[quote]Do they see America as their leader? Their capital nation?

This should end well.

OMG it's called genocidal colonization.

R2, he means other countries where they speak English. South Africa maybe.

South Africa. They speak English there.

Netherlands

We think America is a gun toting, incestuous, redneck, wasteland of dangerous, ingrained cultural elitism that doesn't allow fair or free education or healthcare.

Anymore questions?

I hope this thread is sarcasm. It made me fucking cringe.

If this is for real OP is definitely the type of person who doesn't own a passport.

OP are you currently smoking weed?

R4, that map isn't accurate.

This is how Australians see Americans...

Actors from those countries are pleased that they can come to LA and make it big.

R5 is right. They speak American English. Swedes too.

Duh: Spain. They've got a whole continent (minus Brasil) and part of a continent all speaking Spanish.

Amazing, huh?

R13, Spanish-speaking people can't come to America and just navigate every aspect of American society.

R13, It’s amazing. Almost like sci-fi, even!

It's like Star Trek w/o the high-tech translation devices. You can go across the world (galaxy) and they'll speak the same language.

Of course we see America as our leader. So much culture. Absurdly low crime rate. So much sartorial magnificence.

This has to be a troll thread or OP is a pre-teen who has never travelled.

^^^ Or someone trying to horn in on Five Eyes.

The guys are much hotter in Australia though.

Bryce Thompson - S. Africa. Much hotter than any Australian.

R20 too veiny.

DL’s sarcasm meter is malfunctioning if anyone thought this was a serious post.

So many earnest, lecturing frauen on this thread?

Jaysus!

Bless OP never having heard of the Commonwealth.

India, Pakistan, The Philippines, Nigeria, Singapore, Hong Kong...

This has to be an intentional taunt. The majority of Canadians are very grateful that they're not American.

I'd say most of the English-speaking world looks anywhere but towards America.

Even Canada looks toward the UK or France and they're right on your fucking doorstep.

Well gee shucks y’all, who'da thunkit that y’all non-amurricans can speak that there engerlish!

Cancer causing windmills! They're everywhere!

R28 wins.

[quote]Do they ever think how great it is that they can come to America and find it super easy to get around?

No, Rose. They think they’ll need years of study to speak American.

Ireland is missing and other English speaking nations such as Sierra Leone and many Caribbean countries. You can thank former British imperialism, not waining American influence

R20 I checked his insta. He's very bland and basic looking.

R31 Missing from what, you stupid cunt? It's in OP's fucking thread title.

R31, Ireland is in the title of the thread.

R32, is he a wealthy model?

Is OP John/PMBT who has previously shown weird fascination with those countries?

Andy Cohen and Anderson Cohen intelligence sharing is called Three and a Half Eyes.

That guy in the subway should have been thrown off.

R37 made me laugh.

John PMBT lives in Toronto

We think Americans are arrogant cunts.

[quote]Do they see America as their leader? Their capital nation? Their sibling or something?

Oh please, my sides!

[quote]Of course we see America as our leader. So much culture. Absurdly low crime rate. So much sartorial magnificence.

LOL, I see someone's never been gainfully employed before.

America is seen as the lumbering cousin with learning difficulties you keep away from children because he's unsafe.

The bloke on the train in Sydney is working us way around Australia, pissing people off.

If the dumb fuck had done any research before he brought his missionary routine here he would have discovered that the numbers of people following any Christian religion in Australia are at an all time low and are only going to continue to fall. Also, that Australians, like pretty much anyone, don’t like being lectured to by stupid loud Americans on how to live our lives.

Canada is "across the oceans" from us? Is OP Miss Teen South Carolina?

[quote]America is seen as the lumbering cousin with learning difficulties you keep away from children because he's unsafe.

But he also protects you and determines your foreign policy. lol

^^^ Oh and has also won far and away the most Nobel Prizes, pretty spiffy for "learning disabilities."

We have a case of an OP responding, poorly, to his own post. Sad

Why on earth would we see America as our leader? how bizarre!

What about Five Eyes, R50?

OP here's a serious answer:

Here in Britain America is partly seen as glamorous, as that is where Hollywood is, where a lot of film and TV is made, and there's a big music industry that we consume, and partly looked down on for having rampant gun crime and insufficient gun control, for being overly guided by religion in matters of government etc. (obviously some places are extremely religious others more secular), for having no free health service, and having Trump as a president.

Collectively, we look at you with a mixture of excitement at the perceived glamour and the scale of the country, and snobbishness at the perceived gaucheness and crassness of a lot of Americans - I say perceived, this is not true for many people but there is just enough truth to maintain that perception - as in the stereotype of Americans abroad.

There is also a perception that Americans are less intelligent than Brits, but I think that's probably our own exceptionalist tendencies at work - there's no point comparing a hillbilly with an Oxford Don, nor a Princeton professor with your average 'Britain First' nationalist. But I also think that there is a greater strain of anti-intellectualism in your country than in ours - hence your current President.

Your snobbish shows mostly with the " your average 'Britain First' nationalist"comment.

snobisshNESS damn it

Not sure about 'protects' R47 - the US helped to drag us into war with Iraq, despite the will of the British people, and as for 'determines foreign policy' - it is US repeated violent intrusions into other countries that causes people to see it as unsafe, lumbering around the world.

Cuntiest cunt that ever did CUNT!

Tony Blair sold out the UK and the Labour Party.

No R53 - snobbish would have been to compare a hillbilly with, for example, an uneducated person who lives on a council estate - I did not do that as I'm not classist and I hate the stigmatisation of poverty and stereotyping of social housing residents. You can't choose where you were born or how much money you have, but you can choose whether to join a facist racist orgnaisation.

The anger that leads people in that direction may be connected of course, I believe that the poorest and most economically marignalised were abandoned under New Labour and further abandoned under the Tories, and worse than abandoned in fact.

Nevertheless, Britain First is a facist organisation and it doesn't really help the discussion to pretend that it isn't. Snobbishness doesn't come into it in that regard.

No one considers the US to be their leader. We do everything possible to be the exact opposite.

What about it R51?

Isn't the US the leader of the Five Eyes?

No R61. Why would you think that? This link describes the situation. It doesn't sound like there's a hierarchy, and the US is actually listed last:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes

So, I'm flying from a southern country to Vancouver Canada in June with no direct flights. And this time, managed to avoid doing what I dislike so much - having to go through the USA. This time, it's through Toronto, and returning from another city on another airline via Mexico City.

That's how much I detest this country (USA) - I try not to even spend any time there on a layover, yet alone, visit it.

By the way, what are the current statistics of foreign visitors flocking to the great United States of America?

For many Americans, including at this site, you have absolutely no comprehension how disliked you truly are. Yet alone, to see yourselves as the leader of the free world. You aren't free - you're repressed and exploited.

I realize this thread is a mockery of displaying the naivety/ignorance of many Americans, but, unfortunately, it's also too close to the truth.

What R63 said. I recently transited through the USA on the way to Canada. The difference between the immigration experience in LAX and that in YVR was striking - and I’ve been travelling to both countries since I was a child.

LAX - bullying and stupid Immigration and Customs “officials” who have probably never traveled beyond Southern California, exercising the only power they’ve ever had in their lives. Standard 90 minute wait to get processed.

YVR - young, friendly, smiling and INTELLIGENT immigration officials standing at podiums saying “Welcome to Canada! Are you skiing? Happy Christmas! Have a great trip!”. From bag collection to kerb side. 15 minutes max.

And yes, I know about 9/11 - might be time for a new excuse for your shitty Immigration and Emigration / TSA goons.

England, as the mother country, is the leader.

R65 Well said!

The Queen is mother to us all.

R67 Well said.

We don't envy Americans anything and all the pro-gun bullshit that's spread all over the web by 'Muricans ever since we banned semi automatics just confirms that sentiment.

US is the protector the English speaking countries and Trump our leader. Thank god

R64, US immigration officials are more testy than Canadian ones because they have to deal with a bigger HORDE of people trying to cram into the US than Canada. If you’re a Brazilian fashion model - you want to move to NYC. If you’re an aspiring British actor - you want to move to LA. If you’re a Chinese techie - you want to move to Silicon Valley. The sheer number of people trying to cram into those cities / regions...

Even more international tourists visit the US than Canada. So just like street-traffic controllers on busy streets and intersections, US Immigration officials are worn out and cynical about this endless HORDE of people.

[quote] Standard 90 minute wait to get processed [at LAX].

My non-EU friends said 1 - 2 hours was standard at Heathrow in London. 1.5 hours is long but not unusual for big, busy airports.

The US is seen as a nation of war mongering terrorists destroying the world.

Canada, Mexico and the rest of America is seen fondly

R43 - I am not gainfully employed. I’m retired. Early and very comfortably. I don’t have a ‘boss’ and haven’t done for a very long time. But, if I did I would prefer they weren’t an illiterate, badly dressed bully.

TBH, your confusion of the term ‘leader’ with ‘boss’ reveals your serf mentality. But, you know...you do you.

[quote] Oh and [the US] also won far and away the most Nobel Prizes, pretty spiffy for "learning disabilities."

Many of them were Eastern European Jews :).

[quote] As of 2017, Nobel Prizes have been awarded to 902 individuals, of whom 203 or 22.5% were Jews, although the total Jewish population comprises less than 0.2% of the world’s population. This means the percentage of Jewish Nobel laureates is at least 112.5 times or 11,250% above average.”

The remedial-class Goyim in the US need to thank the genius Jews ;)

R71 - Vancouver International Airport isn't some backwater regional airport - 25 million passengers last year (LAX 87 million). It's really not about 'hordes' of people, it's the overall experience. And the impression of USA airports is how very much the country is a police state.

Nobody wants to attack Canada and blow shit up. The US airport experience is different for a reason.

[quote] Vancouver International Airport isn't some backwater regional airport - 25 million passengers last year (LAX 87 million)

Vancouver Airport is not a backwater, but it's not a major international hub either, R77. Based on your own figures, LAX is 3.5 times busier.

There are plenty of crazy Europeans, etc who travel to LA to stalk Hollywood celebs. Or to smuggle drugs in their asses to "international party towns" (LA and Las Vegas). You don't get those HORDES as much up in Vancouver.

R71 - one of the “HORDES” here. It’s nothing to do with the demographic of the people visiting US ports of entry. More to do with the demographic of the pig ignorant people your country employs to deal with the “HORDES”.

Your choice of that word says a lot of how you view these people - you work in LAX Immigration, right?

This is a satire thread.

Countries that were conquered and not colonized are only stepchildren of England. That's why the list is usually UK, Canada, U.S., Australia and New Zealand. Other countries, like Ireland and South Africa were influenced by the British, but the Irish and South Africans and others are distinctly different from the main group.

[quote]More to do with the demographic of the pig ignorant people your country employs to deal with the “HORDES”.

Yeah, we all know what you're really saying.

Some people refer to it as the Anglosphere.

R82, Bermuda, Bahamas, India, Pakistan, Burma, Malaysia, etc. Former British [italic]colonies.[/italic]

Why are the British-colonized countries in the New World so "first-world" with a high standard of living, yet the Spanish-colonized countries in the Americas such basket cases? Was it Protestantism vs. Catholicism?

r85, they may have been colonies, but other than Bermuda, they were not colonized and populated like the big 4 were with British people.

[quote]Bermuda, Bahamas,

... come on pretty mama!

I'm moving to Antartica

Loofahs and poufs are the way to go.

R86, that doesn't explain Canada, which is a majority Catholic country.

British colonization of America involved moving large populations of its citizens across the Atlantic to establish permanent settlements in the New World and transforming the land into a collection of British-type townships, which were British in culture and character. They were successful in establishing lucrative settlements that grew into large, self-sustaining countries.

The Spanish, however, were more interested in exploiting natural resources and converting the "savages" to Christianity. They established trading posts far and wide and relied on the local populace for labor. They had trouble getting enough of its citizens to settle these parts, so comandante-generales and local families established encomiendas that enslaved native populations; thus establishing an enduring legacy of rich families controlling most of the land and wealth.

British men didn't intermarry with the indigenous women, like the Spanish men did.

Well, this thread has introduced me to the Five Eyes, of which I had never heard before, so I'm grateful for that. I decided not to take offense at some of the comments about America and Americans, since none of you know me personally. If I were going to say there's a parent country, it's the UK, with the Queen as the head of state. I still see her as the pole star who sets the example for all us English-speaking people. When I mention my respect for her, people here on DL sometimes jeer at me, but I don't care. She's been the only continuing figure of respect in my (rather long) life. And yes, my respect for her is very real, and I'm going to need DLs help to get through the first few days when she finally dies. I'll be sobbing.

American here who has nothing but respect and admiration for the Queen. She's weathered so many monumental changes in society and she's done a beautiful job of it.

[quote]If I were going to say there's a parent country, it's the UK, with the Queen as the head of state. I still see her as the pole star who sets the example for all us English-speaking people.

The United States fought a war to be free of all British control. We don’t acknowledge the Queen as anything except irrelevant.

Countries like Canada just rolled over and still have to keep the old Hag’s picture on their money.

Malta.

We see the USA as arrogant and loud... And ignorant of other countries.

R93 do yourself a favor and don't ever say that in Ireland.

Congratulations on starting your first thread, Pres. Trump!

[quote]that doesn't explain Canada, which is a majority Catholic country

Huh? I've never heard that in my life.

Here are the statistics, with a brief history prior to the 1800's

The best part, in my opinion is that 'no religion' comes in at second place at 24% (2011), and probably higher in 2019

R86, I've wondered that myself.

The contrast between the prominent "New World" colonies (America, Australia, Canada, New Zealand vs. Latin America (Mexico, Central America, South America — with Chile and Argentina being the most borderline successful) is so stark.

Success of colonies has nothing to do with culture. Please. It's just an IQ thing, more or less. Not a judgment — just saying that culture isn't going to determine economic success.

Catholics have more kids, greater poverty.

R101 your map ranks Libya and Venezuala high up on the HDI. Laughable!

r100 r91 "Majority" means more than 50%. Catholicism in Canada is at 38.7%, so --- no.

R105 - There's a current phenomenon occurring there, where atheism is now a big factour skewing the statistics. . But, if you where to go back a few decades, Catholicism has been the majority religion in Canada. Unlike Jews, where 50% of them don't believe in the existence of God, they still see themselves as Jews. Roman Catholics don't do that. Personally, myself and my three siblings all grew up Catholic in Canada. . We're all atheists now - and there are hundreds of thousands like us.

Italy, Spain and France are all majority Catholic and they have a very high standard of living, so it can't be just Catholicism as a factor.

Queen’s Land.

Although the OP is a low-level troll, the thought that any other Anglophone colonial country has anything to feel much superior about is laughable.

I think New Zealand has the best record out of them, but Canada and Australia are nowhere near the left-wing paradises they tout themselves as and White South Africa can eat a bowl of shit and fuck itself with the spoon.

I think it’s Climate/temperate that makes for a successful country.

I love non-native English Europeans who learn to speak English with a British accent. It’s so cute.

Interestingly I think Ireland thought of themselves as almost a part of US, one step removed. Speaking as American born son of Irish immigrants who spends lots of time there. But with their success and the descent into craziness of US, I think they have created their own separate identity.

I’m sure glad this isn’t an obvious troll thread.

The US was easier to colonize than South America because over 40% of the land is uninhabitable. The Great Plains, the Rocky Mountains, the deserts kept native population lower than in lush South America.

[quote] Why are the British-colonized countries in the New World so "first-world" with a high standard of living, yet the Spanish-colonized countries in the Americas such basket cases?

Because the US constantly ,y intervenes to keep Latin American countries poor. First, the US doesn’t want their population to see a successful socialist society in this hemisphere because capitalism. Second, we don’t want a country equally as powerful as ours (or more powerful) in this hemisphere. So we destabilize those countries, interfere in their elections, assassinate their leaders, install rich families that will do our bidding.

r115, based on the example of Venezuela, and well, all the rest of them, South Americans are quite capable of fucking up their own countries without any assistance from their northern neighbor.