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Originally Posted by esquire
^ I suspect that with the common language it's easier to absorb large amounts of news and information from the US. Imagine if the US was the same in every respect, except they spoke Spanish. Faced with a linguistic divide, there would be a lot more distance... the flow of imported culture and entertainment would decline dramatically, and we'd probably import a lot more from the UK, Australia, Ireland and other English-speaking countries instead of relying almost exclusively on the US.
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How much difference would you expect to be between the two countries if we had a 1 kilometer high wall dividing us since 1900.
We might have a bit of a scottish accent but most of what is Canadian is a result of having a blank slate.
A whole lot of American culture can be summed up as English folk free of the oppressive upper class. There's a reason that Irish Americans/Southerners seem so typical of the American identity.
The industrial revolution hid a whole lot of the rural english country side but it is still the heart of anglo-american culture.