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Originally posted by Faith:
No, you're right, you don't have to do anything, but that is a very ignorant statement.The UK is *not* little America.
The history, culture, architecture, social customs, government, cuisine, modes of travel, flora and fauna...everything is different.
Europe has a soul, as it's been said, and a long history. Some Americans don't even know how to appreciate "long history" because they've never been around it before and can't conceive of the feel of it.
And besides, the US is not like the US. 
The States are still diversified, too.
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As for some temperamental differences:
All the English women I've known and lived with are much quieter, more deferential, and self-restrained than Americans. (English men are more formal than Americans, too, but I found them more outgoing than the women.) English people won't open up right away or at all. Americans are friendly in our direct, smiley way, but the English are friendly in a more sensitive, considerate, real way. So I learned that if they are really friendly to you, it means you've passed their tests and they trust you, so the friendship is more likely to last.
They filter more up front and have higher standards of behavior, in other words, and their relationships may be more meaningful and deep because of that.
^^ Generally speaking. That's the best way I can describe it. I was only there for four months, not a lifetime.
This sounds about right, although I know some more "in your face" English women. 
Either Americans have rubbed off on me, or transits have done their thing, but I'm not as quiet as I used to be. Filter is gone, pretty much, too. I like pretty much everyone, unless I'm PMS'ing, but it would take me a long time to open up.
I used to be surprised when American women would gush, and say they loved me (as a friend), and all of that - it took me a while to get used to it, especially when they would say it not long after we'd met.
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