Catholic and Enjoying It!
A triumph of ideology over reality.
Naturally, our ruling classes here in the States will be eager to imitate all this as fast as possible. Two hundred years and we still feel a rankling sense of inferiority to the English.
What cracked me up when I went to Ireland was the strange way in which my American accent automatically conferred Authority on me with many of the people I met in just the same way a British accent makes most Americans go all melty and assume you must know something. I don’t know what that means. Perhaps it’s just a “grass is always greener on the other side of the Pond” thing.
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