<p>Hello guys, I would just like to know how American people treat British people such as myself?</p>
<p>I want to go to America for university (preferably the University of Colorado at Boulder)
I'm currently doing my A-levels, and I'm going to do my SATs as well.</p>
<p>However, I was born in America, should I just say I'm British (from my accent?) or should I say I'm American?</p>
<p>Are Englishmen liked or despised? Will I mix in the groups in colleges? </p>
<p>So many questions, but, I have a fear that I might become an outcast.</p>
<p>Yes. And american men like girls with English accents.</p>
<p>Again, I don’t think there is any sort of negative opinion of Brits whatsoever in America.</p>
<p>In general, I would consider it to be a positive, no a negative.</p>
<p>Perhaps there is in Europe. I have no idea.</p>
<p>Even though 65 years have now passed, Americans who know their history will always remember, and treasure, our shared fight against Nazi Germany. Churchill is still a much admired figure to those of us whose parents fought in WW II (I am 55 years old).</p>
<p>Yeah, I think it will help you out for the most part. People will find you extremely interesting, which can be cool but I think it gets annoying…one of my best friends last year was from England and she loved the attention but she found it got a little obnoxious as time went on. There are a few people here (I don’t know if you know this considering you were born in America) who are kind of obsessed with England…it gets a little creepy.</p>
<p>You’ll do quite well with the girls though, most likely. :)</p>
<p>I think I’m losing the accent anyways, my accent is possibly switching to “American” – or so my friends say. I’m not sure. Anyways, cheers thanks!</p>
<p>Just wondering, I’ve always noticed how American actors imitate British accents in movies a lot. Are there any instances where it happens the other way around?</p>
<p>^Yes… all the time…
There are a lot of actors that are big with Americans that are actually British and no one seems to know. Christian Bale is one of them. Hugh Laurie (House) is also British and there are a lot of other examples.</p>
<p>Hey fellow Brit. I’m doing a year abroad in Mass.</p>
<p>When you first meet people you answer the same questions over and over, but it’s not that different.
We’re people, they’re people, people are people.</p>
<p>I’m more being more social than I was in England, but I don’t think my accent has anything to do with it.</p>
<p>What about Australians on exchange in America? I’m told from others Australian’s who went to the US that the American’s were surprised when they weren’t backward and uneducated bush folk, and that the aussies were continually asked to say things so people could hear/mock the accent.</p>
<p>^I wouldn’t say that. I knew guys who used it to their full advantage to pick up girls at clubs and it worked every.single.time. </p>
<p>Some of my best friends are from Australia and they haven’t had a negative experience in the U.S. (or so they say). Perhaps it depends where you go?</p>
<p>^My cousin had college-aged, Australian exchange students over at his house while he was on break from school. He said they were cool and friendly, but that they were also the most idiosyncratic folks he’d ever met. The wore short-shorts, pastel colors and UGG boots (this is the men I’m talking about) and that they’d wake up at 3:00 to randomly go on walks and stuff. He showed me pictures to to prove it.</p>
<p>I think the Crocodile Hunter is the standard by which other Australians are judged.</p>
<p>@OP and other foreingers: Really though, we all like to speculate about how people in other countries view us, but the reality is that people everywhere are, first and formost, concerned with their own problems. </p>
<p>You’ll get a reaction the first few times you talk with people, and then the culture shock sets in…</p>
<p>Imagine a world in which the average person can’t name five European “football” clubs or players…a world where very few know what the second biggest city in your country is, and your currency is mistaken as a foodstuff (Euro) or measurement of weight (pound).</p>
<p>That’s the world you’ll be living in when you get here.</p>
<p>Girls will LOVE you (as long as you are decently attractive), and if the girls love you, you will get respect from the men, many of whom will stereotype you as a snob at first (unfortunately). You will do just fine.</p>
thanks!</p>