celticstanger
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Rock36 said:As far as racial diversity goes the numbers will bear me out, the United Kingdom despite its diversity is still 92.1% white according to a 2001 UK census. The United States on the other hand is 83.2% white (that 83.2% figure INCLUDES the 11.4% of the population that is hispanic), so as far as "white Europeans" go the United States, as a whole, is only 71.8% white as it compares to the UK's 92.1%.
Holy cow! Is that correct??? I know that until I was 15, the only non-whites I saw were the few Chinese from our local restaurants (seriously!), but then I grew in BF Nowhere (Brechin - look it up, a "city" of 7,000ish ), but having moved around the UK quite a bit before moving to the US, I'd have never thought the UK was 92.1% white.
I do know that the UK is now getting as many Eastern European immigrants as they do any other group, so that may have have something to do with those numbers - you don't need a different colour of skin to have diversity (isn't that an old, old wooden ship, anyways???). Heck, even backwater Brechin is getting it's fair share of Poles, etc.
Again, I think we're more alike than would first appear - perhaps the UK's diversity is less easy to track.
It's funny to read this thread. Before coming over here, I'd obviously grown up on the same stereotypes as most in the UK, when it comes to the US. Couple this with a few friends I'd made whilst still in Brechin (US military based at RAF Edzell) who went someway to consolidating this stereotype, and I was fairly sure that I wouldn't be here more than 2 years. Well, surprise-surprise, I get here and very quickly see how we're not so different, but rather there are a few characters responsible for the loud, cowboy image of the US - much like Austin Powers probably didn't do the English stereotype any good!
Let's not lose sight of the bottom line here - the 05+ Mustang is one heck of an all-rounder - it looks great, it sounds great, it performs well and is affordable. In any straight-up apples-to-apples comparison, it holds its own against all-comers. Again, this is Clarkson junk-journalism. I'm sure he wouldn't be overly enamoured if US car magazines riddled their reviews of Brit cars with references to the failed British empire, the English penchant for butchering their neighbours and their inability to leave the country on vacation without rioting and throwing petrol-bombs.
That said, a popular US mens fitness magazine did open their review of the Marcos TSO GTC this month with "Apparently, not all English people are uptight...", so it also appears that the beloved Mr Clarkson doesn't have monopoly on talking irrelevant smack, either!
Peace!