I'd love the idea of walking up to some passing American tourists and going "Hi. I'm a Brit," and watch them all scatter to the four winds screaming and peeing themselves in raw, naked fear ha you wish.
Notice that the Brits cast as bad guys in American media pretty much always have these plummy, aristocratic accents. It's because we're associating evil with the aristocracy, not with a specific country. (The other theory about this is because we think upper-class British accents sound gay without being overtly homosexual; cartoony, over-the-top villains have a long history of being coded as queer.)
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branchandroot
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Date: 2010-04-10 10:59 pm (UTC)ha you wish.
Notice that the Brits cast as bad guys in American media pretty much always have these plummy, aristocratic accents. It's because we're associating evil with the aristocracy, not with a specific country. (The other theory about this is because we think upper-class British accents sound gay without being overtly homosexual; cartoony, over-the-top villains have a long history of being coded as queer.)