Courtesy of Clifford Sosis, as always. Prof. McNaughton, a Brit, is currently Professor of Philosophy at Florida State University; this part of his interview was quite amusing:
Most Americans I meet are delightful, and I love their positive attitude. I hugely enjoy the vast amount of classical music concerts in Tallahassee. And Jan and Feb can be nice. But the rest of the year it is a tropical hell-hole, crawling with alligators, poisonous spiders and snakes, disease-laden mosquitos, ticks, etc. One third of the US population believe either that Obama is the anti-Christ, or that he may be. Trump is hugely popular. The country is obsessed with guns; the crime rate is appalling, and the penal system barbaric. Plus, you don’t have any historical places to speak of and you have to travel vast distances to see nice landscape. The UK also has many faults (some of which have surfaced dramatically in the last week) but the countryside, climate, and culture make up for it. Plus, the things I dislike are at least familiar rather than alien. One thing I have learned in my years in USA is that, just because we share a language and a history, one should not assume we are culturally akin. I feel more at home in most parts of Western Europe than in the USA.
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