The Difference between England and

America

Abstract: the paper is to show the difference between American and English in

several aspects, such as geographical location, cultural environment and the most

important part, the language.

Key words: Culture Environment,Education,food,Table Manner

Introduction

The paper deals with the The Difference between England and America.Culture

is a complex, including knowledge and belief, art, morals, law, custom, and members

of the society who acquired as any other capabilities and habits.

1. Culture Environment

Britain is a traditional European country with long historical tradition continuity,

and there had been a hierarchy in British society for a long time. And in UK there

always has been a monarchy. So, the British likes to remember past times and old

acquaintances, tends to be conservative, and behaves like a gentleman. All these need

culture accumulation, and these character and qualities can’t be made if the country is

without a long history. However, the U.S. is precisely without a very profound

historical accumulation and is a young country. So, the Americans dare to innovate

and stress emphasis on personal value. On the other hand, in the United States, there

are not a lot of constrains. They feel free to make bold innovations.In addition, there

is a great difference in the population composition of the two countries. The United

States is a nation of immigrants, people comes from all countries and regions in the

world. So, the culture of the United States shows different characteristics. People in

American can accept and absorb all the culture factors all over the world. U.S.

attitude toward foreign cultures is an open. However, comparing to the United States,

the structure of the UK population appears to be simplex.

2.Geographical Location

The geographic location of the United Kingdom and the United States are

different, one in European continent, one continent of the America. The United

Kingdom, after a long period of development, has been very wealthy, so they are

decent and conservative. But at the beginning of the United States, the United States

is in a completely unfamiliar and barren continent, the first settlers were called

pioneers, so they have to have the courage to take risks. If they do not have the spirit

of adventure, they will not be able to survive, not to mention development, the hard

environment eventually made the American spirit. In addition, the difference of

European culture and American cultural contributes to the difference of the two

countries. English suffers from the influence from other European countries, like

France, Germany, but American was influenced by the culture of the other countries

in American continent as well as the native Indian.

3. Education

From the educational philosophy of the education system in the United States,

there are the characteristics of diversity and openness, international and flexibility,

which enable the U.S. Department of Education to ensure educational equity and

equality of opportunity to receive education, and take full advantage of the strengths

of educational objects, so education is the dynamic, vibrant in American. It also

reflects what the Americans have been in pursuit, the freedom and equality. British

education has a rigorous style of study and impeccable the education system. The UK

has a strict quality control system, the teaching quality evaluation and the research

Assessment from all the school in England are announced to the world, higher

education institutions in the UK will be checked in a regular routine. This rigorous

attitude is also reflected in the assessment of the student. Many students can’t get a

degree if they fail in passing the assessment. Ethics and professionalism of English teachers ensure the quality of its education. British education also reflects British

conservative and rigorous character.

4.Traditional English food and confluent American food

British food, as we know, is very traditional. They don’t used to change their

habit of food very frequently. Like other northern European cuisines, it majors heavily

on meats, dairy products, wheat and root vegetables and a diet conductive to manual

labor and red-faced citizens. The nineteenth century idea of a varied diet was one with

different sorts of meat in it. Milk and vegetables were regarded as not only uneatable

raw, but highly dangerous until boiled thoroughly. To a certain extent this is

understandable, in an era without refrigeration, when typhoid and cholera could strike

even the wealthy; over-cooking everything was probably a sensible course to take.

People in English have a special eating habit. Firstly, the main meal in England seems

to be eaten in the evening. Secondly, a big English breakfast is not something that

many English people seem eat. Most of them have a light meal of cornflakes or toast

and marmalade, orange juice and coffee rather than the eggs, sausages, bacon, bread,

mushrooms and tomatoes. Fish has always been an important food in Britain. There

are jellied eels, kippers or bloaters or crabs and so on. But the most popular of all is

fish and chips, splashed with vinegar and eaten in the street out of a paper bag .

British have a habit of drinking tea. “A nice cup of tea, the stronger the better”is

supposed to be the British cure for all problems. Although many different drinks can

be found in Britain, tea is undoubtedly the favorite at any time of the day and is the

essential basis of afternoon tea. This is a meal that can vary from tea and a biscuit to

the cooked high tea with lots of cakes served in the north. In the south west of

England it is usually a cream tea, with home-made scones, strawberry jam and piles of

thick clotted cream. People vary seldom have the thin cucumber sandwiches described

in novels.

American cuisine : The United States is a land of delicious eating. The two concepts

essential to understanding US food are regionalism and diversity, accent on the latter.