Swiss?! I'm Irish begora! Or rather I'm from the disputed six counties of Ulster so it depends who you ask wether I'm Irish or British (although that said there are dual national idenitities all through the UK, like the welsh, Scots, Cornish and Manx so I dont see where the problem is).I think you think I'm slagging your nationality, I'm not there are many good things about the US especially around the war of indepence era, take the socialist Tom Paine for instance but the "American Way" I really, really cant condone. It is an attempt to create a sterile single identity out of the glorious multi-cultural ethnic diversity that is the US and stems mainly from the prohibition era attempt to create a single white anglo-saxon protestant identity typified by a work ethic (or rather submissive labour force), puritanical zealotry and militant defence of classical political economy.
No I cant have that and if you look for an Irish equivalent I dont think you'll find one, that's not to say we're perfect I know we're not or rather the fact that a nation is an amalgumation of classes makes it so.
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McSpotlight: Not to intrude here; but Thomas Paine came from Thetford in Norfolk; and most of "The Rights of Man" was actually originally written in The Angel Inn in Islington (London - which is where "the Angel, Islington" on a Monopoly board and Angel tube station come from). Thomas emigrated to the US in 1774, at the request of his friend Benjamin Franklin - three years after he had been dismissed from his job at HM Customs & Excise on suspicion of smuggling.
