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Originally posted by Squishy:
Might be the same instance for how some parts of the world call Americans ‘Yanks’, obviously taken from the American civil war.
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Wow, what is it, roughly two hundred years after the war of independence and there is still a little hostility.
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I believe that many Europeans and most British are so uneducated about the U.S, that they still believe Yankee Doodle Dandy is your national anthem!!!
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Yankee Doodle Dandy was an old british drinking stune which the revolutionary patriots adapted and sang as a mock national anthem. This was in total was meant to be an a front to the Brittish. Why I don’t know.
I don’t know how American history is taught on the other side of the Atlantic, but over here we call our war for independence the Revolutionary War (1776-1782). But it makes sense that you would call it the Civil War since we were fighting our own country. What we call the (American) Civil war (1860-1865) was fought between the northern states and territories and southern states and territories. It’s occasionally refered to the war between the states.
Many in the southern US still refer to it as the civil war as, The War of Northen Aggression. Many in the south still has ill feelings toward the north. One doesn’t have to venture far away froma major city to see that. Georgia and South Carolina still have the Confederate Flag within their own flag. (Ironically Hawaii has the union jack in theirs, but they never had anything to do with you guys) Talks of succession still happen in the deep south, as well as debating stradegies they should have used to beat off the north. As a matter of fact, 10% of all registered voters in S. Carolina belong ot the successionist party. Of course 10% of voters in Washignton state belong to a cpmmunist knock off party.