I once read an article about two towns within miles of each other - one in Canada and one in the United States. The article painted a revealing picture of the difference in world view. The people in the American town were innovative, entrepreneural, passionate in their beliefs, there was class mobility and they took risks. The Canadians were staid, traditional, orderly, bureaucratic, class conscious and process oriented.
I do love the English and their sense of humor, but their attorneys wear wigs and they are subjects of a Queen. I don’t think they have ever “gotten” their rambunctious American offspring and our passion for freedom.
Within a couple of decades there will no longer be any "white Englishmen" ~ instead, a steady stream of "wannabes" from the Commonwealth nations like Jamaica and India are sweeping in and taking up those white wigs and old club mannerisms without skipping a beat.