UK & America
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Jul-26-2011
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What makes a country great? I love asking this to people because of the wide variety of answers I get back. When I ask my friend what makes Britain so great, he talks about how much he loves the countryside, and the rolling green vistas.
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What makes a country great? I love asking this to people because of the wide variety of answers I get back. When I ask my friend what makes Britain so great, he talks about how much he loves the countryside, and the rolling green vistas. When I ask my rebellious Lithuanian friend what makes his country great, he talks about how it’s a new governmental system which means you can get away with many things that’d be considered crimes throughout the world. Some answers I get are simple, my Belgian friend says she loves her country, simply for the fries that they make over there, and that if it wasn’t for the foods she’d have emigrated long ago. Despite the variety of answers I receive, none have ever agreed with my answer, which is the cultural relationships that it builds up with other nations over the course of its life. This is always evidenced in the Eurovision song contest, as all the Baltic nations vote for one another, and how many nations vote for Russia’s entry, no matter how abysmal for fear of having their resources cut off by the behemoth. However there are some aspects of this that I find positive, and it would be silly not to I mean without trade relations and such medicine wouldn’t be anywhere near as established as it is today.
There is one relationship between nations that has always interested me somewhat, and it is that between Britain and America. Despite both countries mocking the other with boring and over used stereotypes there is quite a lot of history between the two countries. Firstly let’s look at when America became its own independent country with the declaration in 1776. This is something that the Americans are massively proud of because they cemented their place in the world by defeating the British in the American Revolution. The thing that interests me the most with this, is actually to do with the attitudes that American’s have because of this. People assume that because Washington was the first president of the USA that he hated the British and that’s simply not true, considering his own ancestral home was Sulgrave Manor in the town of Banbury. I make a point to visit this place whenever I’m in the area to remind myself that Revolution isn’t always a bad thing. In fact, the place itself has been made a family museum paying tribute to the Washington’s who lived there long before they emigrated and has a large collection of some of George’s things. It also includes an exhibit that shows how Britain contributed to America through sciences and ideologies, it really is a fantastic place to gather some culture and to see how two of the world’s most powerful nations have grown and developed over the years. All in all I feel that examples like this are the way that nations become great, not through conquest but through contribution with one another, look how we’ve come already, who knows what would happen if the entire world contributed to one another without conflict.
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Article Source :
http://www.articleseen.com/Article_UK & America_68912.aspx
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Author Resource :
For more information about George Washington please visit: http://www.sulgravemanor.org.uk
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Keywords :
sulgrave manor, george Washington, tudor manor, architecture country villages,
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Travel and Leisure
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Travel Tips
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