I think we're missing the interesting bit of the question, which, I think, is What kind of effects would British culture and thought have on the American people? How would the U.S. government be changed? How would the U.S. thinking change?
I don't have enough information to really answer any of these questions.
As far as Britain being "Americanized," I'm not entirely convinced that this is a clear enough concept to be especially meaningful. For one thing, America has a number of different cultures, none of which have clearly defined limits. The stereotypes of the average person from Texas, from Southern California, from Chicago, and from Dixie all seem to me like they could be residents of separate countries.
What's more, the cultural influences from Western Europe to the United States have never been small. Our government was designed from a British model; "the royal family" means the british royal family to most Americans; everybody here knows who Tony Blair is, and most people don't even know the title of the Italian head of state. I would bet that if you traced any of these subcultures said to originate in the U.S. a little further, you'd find they might have come from somewhere else in the world---a number of them from Britain. |
