Typical British provincialism. Sadly, I just had dinner with two friends from England who had just watched one of the John Adams episodes with Paul Giamotti (they had to turn on the subtitles, lol!) Anyway, my very nice friend said to me in a loud, proud voice: “You know, we’ve never heard of John Adams!” I wasn’t surprised.
That being said, the comments following this editorial show that Brits living in America really do get it.
well, we’re all guilty of some kind of provincialism. Would most of us Americans have heard of PG Wodehouse or Mickiewicz or Premchand?