----- 3 stars ----- Tea, Biscuits, and Empire: The Long Con of Britishness I'm one of those Americans for whom the UK has "a unique hold on their imaginations" -- to the point that I've moved to London. And so I suppose I should disagree with this piece, but I'm also willing to concede that I may well mentally inhabit the magical Britain (helped along by the accents and architecture surrounding me) more than the rather real Britain described here. (Though it's not as if one couldn't write an even more damning portrait of supposed American exceptionalism...)
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----- 3 stars ----- Tea, Biscuits, and Empire: The Long Con of Britishness I'm one of those Americans for whom the UK has "a unique hold on their imaginations" -- to the point that I've moved to London. And so I suppose I should disagree with this piece, but I'm also willing to concede that I may well mentally inhabit the magical Britain (helped along by the accents and architecture surrounding me) more than the rather real Britain described here. (Though it's not as if one couldn't write an even more damning portrait of supposed American exceptionalism...)