2011年7月30日土曜日

America's Nitwit Anglophiles by Joe Queenan

  Why are they so oblivious to the things that really make Britian great?

  Americans’ Anglophiles believe Americans are loud, rude and afflicted with poor taste and despise their compatriots, but 20,000 drunks, lechers, sluts and gangsters hang around London’s Leicester Square. Anglophiles get all weak in the knees at the very mention of Beatrix Potter and Peter Pan. Their admiration of the royal wedding is an act of demented form of cultural fetishism. Anglophiles do not admire the wonderful things the English have given the U.S.—legal system, King Lear, Jane Eyre, and the Protestant Reformation, but their attention is madly directed at the things like bowler hats, Harrods, people with names like Bonham-Carter. Isn't something wrong with Anglophilia? (105 words)

Question: Why do Anglophiles admire people with names like Bonham-Carter? What lies in the name, Bonham-Carter? Please, anyone reading this blog, give me the answer.