Our identities are intertwined. All the signatories to the Declaration of Independence were of recent British descent. 4th July is as much British history as American. I don't feel I have been culturally Americanised any more than watching Home and Away and neighbours has culturally Australianised me.
was more referring to ways folk act these days. just the little things like cheering and clapping at the cinemas, having cafe's (French word) now as Diners. Kids now have Proms here. We used to have a little disco (French again to be fair). Kids walking around all gangster with their jeans hanging down from their arse. Wasn't really thinking about the declaration of indepence.