kraftiekortie wrote:
There are plenty, plenty of Brits here.
I find UK people, usually, to be more modest than Americans. Less apt to "show themselves." This could give the impression that there are more Americans here than the actual quantity of Americans.
This is a worldwide Site. But it's primarily in the English language; I find that a person who doesn't speak English well has a distinct disadvantage here.
But there is no disadvantage in being a Brit--at all.
It's not because he's a Yank that Trump and US politics in general have dominated this Site. It's because Trump is so polarizing...and brings out the "political" in otherwise "apolitical" people.
It would interesting what reaction Neville Chamberlain's "appeasement" of Hitler would have been invoked in 2018 WrongPlanet. I would say that this would dominate this Forum, like Trump dominates this Forum. There really wasn't much that was polarizing about President Roosevelt. He was sort of like Winston Churchill; both were very good at appealing to the people through "fireside chats."
There's no question that Winston Churchill is one of the great men of English history.
I think the modesty is a case of the class system, historically we have outright been told to know our place now its we are still raised to know our place but its more nuanced.