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The Sunday Times. Obviously true of Trump's USA.
"... my main takeaway from travelling around the United States was that, for better or worse, the British actually have far more in common with our neighbours than with our Anglophone friends across the Atlantic. The United States is a remarkable place, a beautiful country full of the most generous-spirited people, but it is alienating to a British visitor in a way that Germany, France or the Netherlands aren’t."
Ed West
"The US is not only historically Protestant, but arguably the most Protestant country, built on the understanding that everyone can have a direct relationship with the Almighty. It is also notably Calvinist, which informs a moralising urge quite alien to most Europeans, and manifests itself in strange practices such as their habit of jailing women teachers for having affairs with teenage boys. In England this would be met with some tut-tutting and in France by a shrug; indeed while the Americans will send you to the big house for this sort of behaviour, the French will send you to the Élysée Palace.
.....Racial equality is now America’s religion, Martin Luther King its secular saint..."
Ed West
"... my main takeaway from travelling around the United States was that, for better or worse, the British actually have far more in common with our neighbours than with our Anglophone friends across the Atlantic. The United States is a remarkable place, a beautiful country full of the most generous-spirited people, but it is alienating to a British visitor in a way that Germany, France or the Netherlands aren’t."
Ed West
"The US is not only historically Protestant, but arguably the most Protestant country, built on the understanding that everyone can have a direct relationship with the Almighty. It is also notably Calvinist, which informs a moralising urge quite alien to most Europeans, and manifests itself in strange practices such as their habit of jailing women teachers for having affairs with teenage boys. In England this would be met with some tut-tutting and in France by a shrug; indeed while the Americans will send you to the big house for this sort of behaviour, the French will send you to the Élysée Palace.
.....Racial equality is now America’s religion, Martin Luther King its secular saint..."
Ed West
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