Re: If the Americans had got their way with JKR....

kilroy41 wrote:
> Petulant might be a bit strong. We just don't like being accused of
> something, in general, without having any proof to back it up. I believe
> what you said, and I trust the where you got your information. It was just
> that it felt like you were implying that we were all like that. I'm sure
> you weren't, it just felt that way.
>
> By the way, I do agree with JKR, they are her stories, and she shouldn't
> have to write them a different way because someone else wants her too.
>
> That's it. I'm done with this issue, and I hope everyone else is.

I have one more thing.

It's one of the safest things in the world to accuse someone of
arrogance. If we try to defend ourselves...we're BEING ARROGANT!

Amazing!

Or we're being petulant or fussy or bombastic or typically egotistical
or we can't take a joke or we're acting superior, or we haven't
emotionally grown up like the rest of the world....

Anyway, I accept. I'm arrogant. So is everyone else, but they haven't
realized it yet and are therefore in worse shape, and this goes
especially for those who delight in painting an ENTIRE COUNTRY with the
"arrogant" brush.

Okay, two more things. I agree with JKR. I love the books as they are -
British - most especially because I LIVED THERE for a few years. (What
I wouldn't give for a Cornish Pasty or a Shepherd's Pie or a decent
Mars Bar sometimes...even a *fried* Mars Bar...sometimes....) I also
think this thread had the potential to be funny, if the OP had started
by slamming only American television and movies (let's face it - half
of them are crap) rather than starting with a 2000-mile-wide brush. I'd
happily go along.

$0.03.

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