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>>>I find it also interesting (and a little humorous) that most Britains consider they are responsible for America and take credit for our successes. Funny that they don't feel responsible for our failures :o)
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>>That sounds like a load of rubbish. How could we feel responsible for the USA? Cos we "let you go" before you matured? I've NEVERE heard anything like that expressed by anyone.
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>Let us go after losing a war, you mean?

Exactly! I WAS being ironic. It would be a stupid prigg who considered the US to be a colony we "let go" too soon for its own benefit.
OTOH, look how much more civilised the canucks are for having had the British influence for a few more centuries! :-)