I'm not British(I'm American), but I'm going to start doing surveys like this to people in America. It looks to fun to see what we come up with.
I Asked 1000 Americans to Name a British City Other Than London
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#12Now, ask 1000 Londoners to name a City in Illinois other than Chicago.
Well more honestly you'd have to ask them to name another city in the states than NYC.
I'm not sure that many people outside the US would have even been able to cite Chicago when asked for a city in Illinois
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#13As a Welsh man I'm fairly sure that Wales isn't a city :)
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#14Now, ask 1000 Londoners to name a City in Illinois other than Chicago.
As a belgian european I often wonder if the United States seems as big to americans as Europe seems big to me. I wonder if it feels different to be a citizen of a small country or a citizen of a continent-wide country such as the United States. Or maybe americans feel they are californians or new-yorkers before being american ?
I would say the culture here is fairly homogenous, so most people feel like Americans before they feel like a citizen of their home state.
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#15Intriguingly in the full list he's lumped "brighton" with "briton/england" - Brighton is actually a place, albeit not a city.
Brighton is a city, technically it's "Brighton and Hove" but that's what everyone is referring to when they say Brighton (in roughly* the same way that Newcastle = Newcastle upon Tyne).
Though not exactly, Hove is* a place too.
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
As a belgian european I often wonder if the United States seems as big to americans as Europe seems big to me. I wonder if it feels different to be a citizen of a small country or a citizen of a continent-wide country such as the United States. Or maybe americans feel they are californians or new-yorkers before being american ?
I would say the culture here is fairly homogenous, so most people feel like Americans before they feel like a citizen of their home state.
Unless you're from Mississippi raises hand
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#17You can cheat at this if you watch a lot of TopGear like I do.
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#18Given I follow English football Manchester was my first thought. I'd have laughed if Midsomer made the list.
Re: I Asked 1000 Americans to Name a British City Other Than London
#19Now, ask 1000 Londoners to name a City in Illinois other than Chicago.
As a belgian european I often wonder if the United States seems as big to americans as Europe seems big to me. I wonder if it feels different to be a citizen of a small country or a citizen of a continent-wide country such as the United States. Or maybe americans feel they are californians or new-yorkers before being american ?
We're definitely American first, but we do generally have a somewhat strong sense of state identity as well.
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#20Now, ask 1000 Londoners to name a City in Illinois other than Chicago.
and then ask 1000 Americans to name a city in Cambridgeshire other than Cambridge. what's your point?