I didn't mean to imply that Americans today are jolly and soulful. I was simply pointing out that American English originally emerged among soulful rural people in southern England and that the speech of those folks contributed to its nicer and more upbeat sound.Natural_Born_Cynic wrote: ↑May 5th, 2023, 6:21 pmYou also brought up that Americans came from all those jolly rural folks south of London while all the arrogant rich assholes stayed in England.
Well now Americans living in the East and West Coasts are bunch of soulless, backstabbing, arrogant a$$holes while the Americans in the Mid West and the South are more down to Earth and jolly. Funny how the dynamics have changed.
I have lived in American for over 25 years. However similar to Winston's, other user's and even Tsar's one hundred page rant about why America sucks.. I have very little "love" left for the country just like you have little love left for your country, the UK. Just my observation. I don't judge.
Americans today are by and large every bit as cold-hearted and soulless as Winston, Tsar and yourself point out, even despite their nicer and more upbeat form of English. Of course they are; the US is nothing more than a neo-feudal society for the most part and the multitude of modern serfs live to toil for their corporate masters until all life and soul is sucked out of them. Such a people which, due to the external pressures of an unnatural society, is only able to see things in terms of money, economic competition and the crudest utility can never be free-spirited and soulful. The US is not a country that is conducive to any kind of true soulfulness, only the illusory happiness of consumerism and a mind numbed by antidepressants.
Yes, Americans who live on the East and West coasts tend to be more narcissistic and neurotic, a product of the ultra-materialistic narc culture which has emerged in those places, particularly in New York and Los Angeles. People from the Midwest tend to be more humble and more down to earth.