> > And ofcourse all the negative things we associate with the Brits (pompus, arrogant, tightwads, no regard for anyone else, no taste for anything fun) actually apply better to the Puritan Pilgrims who setteled Plymoth Rock. They left because the rest of the Brits wern't pompus, arrogant, tightwad, or unfun loveing enough for there taste. Kinda funny when you think of it.
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> Apologies if you were being humorous here, but no. They didn't want to be part of the Church of England(the only legal denomination) for whatever reason, and they couldn't be anything else over there. So they left.
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> > Speed'proudtobeanAmerican'ball
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> Nyper"Thankful to have my citizenship above"old

They didn't like the Church of Engalnd because they thought is was decadent. They actually had song during mass, and statues of saints. The Puritans were opposed to this sort of thing (I'm not eve sure if they had pews or if they stood during the whole mass). Plus I was being a bit humorus, but we Americans do tend to romancises the Pilgrims. I suggest reading a history book entitled "Lies my Teacher Told Me", it examens the American Myths (from Chris Colombus, the Pilgrim Fathers, through to the much more recent times) by useing actually historical documents to expose false hoods and over exagerations that are taught in social studies and history classes across the nation every year.

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