It goes for the dominant culture, too. People quite rightly talk about culture shock moving to the UK from Canada and it not being at all what they expected from Canadian anglophilia, but I had it a second time when reading letters and diaries of Brits in the 1910s and finding spelling, vocabulary, and turns of phrase which I would have considered Canadian. I know there's always been a steady stream of immigration and cultural exchange, but Canada (and even more so New Zealand) seems to have held onto more of pre-war Britain than Britain itself has. I don't think you get Grumpy Brits in the same way, though ... maybe because those most likely to complain would prefer to return to pre-war Britain themselves.
Polka never dies! It just keeps growing. Brawo! Polska Ameryka!
Hit me up next year. I'm in Erie, PA area...right in the middle of both! We have a smaller festival here as well.
Bunch of anti-dyngus dinguses. I want to make it to Buffalo for the event next year if I can!
It goes for the dominant culture, too. People quite rightly talk about culture shock moving to the UK from Canada and it not being at all what they expected from Canadian anglophilia, but I had it a second time when reading letters and diaries of Brits in the 1910s and finding spelling, vocabulary, and turns of phrase which I would have considered Canadian. I know there's always been a steady stream of immigration and cultural exchange, but Canada (and even more so New Zealand) seems to have held onto more of pre-war Britain than Britain itself has. I don't think you get Grumpy Brits in the same way, though ... maybe because those most likely to complain would prefer to return to pre-war Britain themselves.