Wait, what? (England, America)

[ellamequiere]

Title:  Wait, what?
Characters: England, America
Warnings:  None.  Seriously.
Summary:  Also for chibi_spork!  Even England needs to blow off steam sometimes.
Year: Ambiguously modern

This is, believe it or not, is another take on the same prompt that is responsible for A Business Trip, in case it turned out too dark.  Not sure which one I'll finish--

Comments

Re: Hey, that's not my opinion, man--

[ellamequiere]

Man, I'd take Spanish over French any day xD-- why do you think I've kept after it all these years? But-- and I've had this conversation a lot, actually-- the thing about Spanish in the US is that we associate it with poor Latin American immigrants. When you hear a language most frequently at McDonalds, you don't have the same respect for it you might otherwise. So if you try and tell people that Spanish is pretty, they look at you like you're out of your mind.

That having been said, I think that whole situation is a travesty on so many levels I don't even know where to start-- the way America is dealing with Latin American immigrants is even more depressing than the way we're dealing with Muslims (speaking of which, what's up with Europe and Islam? I'm always hearing about new stuff becoming illegal... First it was headscarves in schools in France, then burqas in Spain... although I guess that's still being discussed, right?)

I have real problems with Argentinian Spanish. It's not as hard for me as Spain Spanish (which I almost never hear), but it's still all quick and slurred...

And yeah, we're alarmed. My theory is that is has to do with people being terrified by the idea of a non-majority-white country having the strongest economy. When we hear that the dollar's doing bad against the euro, we sigh and wait for things to turn around. But start talking about owing money to China, and all of a sudden everybody's got this really awful stomach ache... (of course, that's in part because we owe a LOT of money to China...)

...I don't like our anthem, but that's really only because I'm sick of it. I mean, you can only hear Rihanna's version of Star Spangled Banner at a baseball game (at EVERY baseball game) so many times before you just want to shoot yourself in the head. I also... well, who else's national anthems has bombs in it? o_o