The British Obsession with America
TOM MCTAGUE notes:
“You don’t have to live in the U.S. to know that it is
a land of wealth and poverty, opportunity and prejudice, freedom and mass
incarceration. If any one of these things happens to be a particular passion,
seeing how views might harden is easy. In the U.S., after all, none of these
things is very far from the surface—unlike the English class system, endless
and subtle in its hold, America wears its complexities for all to see,
projecting them to the world in an endless diet of film and music, on Netflix,
YouTube, and Amazon Prime.”