{"id":57,"date":"2008-10-23T09:14:21","date_gmt":"2008-10-23T08:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/?p=57"},"modified":"2010-04-13T08:39:02","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T07:39:02","slug":"what-does-it-mean-to-be-american-british","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/?p=57","title":{"rendered":"What does it mean to be American? British?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This YouTube video gives a fascinating insight into what US high school students think it means to be &#8216;American&#8217; and &#8216;British&#8217;.<br \/>\n<center><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/za6XCMAxs9s&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0&#038;color1=0x006699&#038;color2=0x54abd6\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/za6XCMAxs9s&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0&#038;color1=0x006699&#038;color2=0x54abd6\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n<p>It was created by students at Sacramento New Technology High School, USA to help students at Ninestiles Technology College in Birmingham, UK, with a project about identity. Ninestiles doesn&#8217;t seem to have produced a reply, which is a pity &#8211; but also a great opportunity for others.<\/p>\n<p>See the video on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=za6XCMAxs9s\">YouTube<\/a>, where you can choose high quality streaming and see related material. <\/p>\n<p>Interesting footnote: Weed is where George and Lennie have fled from in <em>Of Mice and Men<\/em>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US high school students give us their perspective on what it means to be &#8216;American&#8217; and &#8216;British&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-english-and-ict","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234,"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions\/234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}