englishhobby
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My question may seem to you a little odd, but I'll try to explain the reason for asking it. My students and I are making some research of English-speaking films. In particular, we pay attention to the ways people communicate with each other in those films (including the language the characters are using, but not restricted to the language alone). The problem is that, since the research is cultural, it's a common thing to specify the culture you are studying in our university's "scientific micro community". It's not obligatory, of course, to name the culture, but it is a kind of tradition (besides, my students will be asked a lot of unnecerssary questions, if they do not specify the culture).
Of course, pure British and pure American cultures are different, an we could just as well concentrate only on researching pure British or on pure American films, but I have a feeling that there is some kind of culture which combines both British and American common features, i. e. along with differences there are some similarities in mentality and communicative behaviour of British and American people. If this has some sense, is there a word which derscribes this "mixed culture" and a word that could describe people from these two cultures as one?
Here in Russia people sometimes use the word "Anglo Saxons" to describe this type of people (unfortunately, because of the politics it may sound sometimes sarcastic). And I want to keep away from politics. I want a neutral word for this modern "mixed culture" that may exist in your cultures and be known both to American and British people which is based on the similarities that both cultures have.
Sorry for a long explanation. The result I want to get is to be able to recommend a student to name his paper something like "The Personality Type of a Teacher in (mixed British and American, English-speaking) movies/culture.
I hope you can help in that matter.
Of course, pure British and pure American cultures are different, an we could just as well concentrate only on researching pure British or on pure American films, but I have a feeling that there is some kind of culture which combines both British and American common features, i. e. along with differences there are some similarities in mentality and communicative behaviour of British and American people. If this has some sense, is there a word which derscribes this "mixed culture" and a word that could describe people from these two cultures as one?
Here in Russia people sometimes use the word "Anglo Saxons" to describe this type of people (unfortunately, because of the politics it may sound sometimes sarcastic). And I want to keep away from politics. I want a neutral word for this modern "mixed culture" that may exist in your cultures and be known both to American and British people which is based on the similarities that both cultures have.
Sorry for a long explanation. The result I want to get is to be able to recommend a student to name his paper something like "The Personality Type of a Teacher in (mixed British and American, English-speaking) movies/culture.
I hope you can help in that matter.
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