These things are hard for Americans to understand. I live in Berkeley. Try to imagine that Berkeley has repeatedly gone to war against Stockton and we hate their guts because of their language and their false god.
When the KKK reformed and marched in Southern Maine, they weren't burning crosses on the lawn of black people.
They were threatening my grandparents, for being French catholic. They got local governments to force French speaking communities to stop speaking french. My mother learned french as her first language. I did not. I am not fluent.
It's always here, but it always somehow gets turned into a national thing. It shouldn't be hard for americans to understand, but lots of people keep leaving "And it was your supposedly upstanding in society neighbor who put on the hood and claimed you were poisoning the pure blood of the local trailer park" out of the history book.
Yeah, that seems fair given what I saw of the US when visiting it. "In the UK, 100 miles is a long way. In the US, 100 years is a long time." has a converse.
UK has a thing with football teams: I walked the wrong way once in Sheffield as a football stadium emptied and one group violently ambushed another while I was in the middle of them both. While a police helicopter was overhead.
Back two generations and switching denomination of Christianity was scandalous for some of my relatives.
My Welsh university got me some local stereotype jokes at my expense, ac mae yna bobl o Saeson sy'n amheus iawn o bobl o Gymru yn siarad Cymraeg.
