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Originally Posted by Ignitionnet
I'd also question that we have more in common with them than the Anglophone nations of Australia, Canada and, to a lesser extent, the United States, not to mention former Commonwealth states.
European states had their own identities a long time ago and while we may share roots with them Australia, Canada and the United States are more than cousins, they're the UK's grown up 'offspring'. They may have gone their own way now but similarities are unmistakable, even if in the case of the USA they've gone out of their way to shake them off.
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Do not forget to mention our ancestors influence on the British Isles: Romans, Saxons, Vikings, Normans.