Talk:Macne Nana/@comment-17827197-20140111142542/@comment-53539-20140119111056

The British stereotype came from the BBC, which for many decades had a strict civil code of conduct. For example, typical TV programs would have actors that had "BBC English" and mostly programs spoke about how the middle-class and higher lived. Basically, for some reason America only knowes 3 accents that are British; "cockney" (which is only a small part of London), posh/BBC English and the west country-accent (aka 'pirate talk') which mean don't even realize is a English accent. :-/

In Europe our 'modern' image tends to be based on football (soccer) supporters who travel abroad to see their favorite team. Until recent decades they were mostly "lower-class",as football was usually a sport of the lower classes, its only recent decades this has changed. Unfortunately, the damage is done and most of Europe seems to think we're a bunch of ruffians.

As I said on VO when this came up, heck, this week I've not seen one item with a union Jack on (that week I said this on VO, I had found a purse with one on). Yet every time I see a reference to "British" I see the union jack pasted on the scene "somewhere". :-/

Either way, sterotypes are typically something which represents only a minority of the culture, or are out of date by a good several decades at least.

I was mocked on-line for half a decade when I first came on-line, so for me this is a little bit of a touchy subject. Until about the mid-00's I was afraid to mention I was from England in case it lead to on-line humiliation. Sadly, I had for another half a decade because of it, a bad view of Americans which still has not 100% gone away, because whenever there was trouble due to nationality, an American was heading that trouble, so even now Nana's American flag makes me wary of it. Stereotyping damages relations between people of different cultures, but its not something you can avoid.

either way, their approach to Nana English is the only real solid issue I have on this product, as they could have easily not bothered with pasting an American flag on this one. :-/