I’m reminded of an Alistair Cooke Letter From America in which he quotes former PM Harold Macmillan, speaking of Dwight Eisenhower: “He has great warmth and candour and is, I’m afraid, woefully uneducated.”

(http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/letter_from_america/1466605.stm)

To put it succinctly, what the Brits don’t know about Americans is a lot.

Scott