AHC: Britphilia in America?

I think a better question would be, Amerophilia in Britain.

Lots of anti-Americanism in the United Kingdom. It isn't like it is in the United States, where Britons are admired and looked up to.

On the other hand, the UK also loves Hollywood, a great deal of US TV, US brands, and so on. The English language has a great deal of American words.
 
The English language has a great deal of American words.

That's because there are more English speakers in the United States of America than every other English-speaking country in the world combined. Unless you're talking about British English having American English loanwords.

(311,799,000): The population of the United States of America.

(132,718,571): The populations of United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Canada, Commonwealth of Australia, Republic of Ireland, New Zealand, Republic of Liberia and Belize combined.

According to those numbers, the United States of America alone accounts for around seventy percent of the English speaking world. Although, many Britons think that American English is not English at all. :D

On the other hand, the UK also loves Hollywood, a great deal of US TV, US brands, and so on.

Well, that still doesn't mean that most Britons love the United States. Hell, Chinese and South Koreans like Japanese products but still harbor a great deal of hatred for Japan.
 
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(132,718,571): The populations of United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Canada, Commonwealth of Australia, Republic of Ireland, New Zealand, Republic of Liberia and Belize combined.

According to those numbers, the United States of America alone accounts for around seventy percent of the English speaking world. Although, many Britons think that American English is not English at all. :D

You could also throw in the 6 million people of the other English-speaking Caribbean countries (Jamaica, Guyana, Trinidad, etc), the 4 million or so native English speakers of southern Africa (mostly in South Africa but also quite a few in Zimbabwe and neighboring countries), and another 1-3 million in Asia (Singapore, Hong Kong, Anglo-Indians, a significant number of Israelis, burgeoning populations in Malaysia and the Philippines, etc).
 
We have a ton already, it's just become so ingrained we've really ceased to notice it. We love British people, we love the British royal family (yes a lot of that is the "we love celebrities" factor but there's some real love for that whole crowd, and what's not to love about ol' Queen Elizabeth.
 
Anyway, Anglophilia in the United States had its greatest strength in the 1960's, with the "British Invasion" of popular music sparked by The Beatles. The British were never dramatically unpopular in the United States since then, except perhaps among older generations of Irish Americans, and even then the disdain was rather limited in its manifestation (my mom, for example, inherited her immigrant grandmothers' strong opinions on Ulster and the British role in the Potato Famine, but still gobbled up British music and television).

Japanophilia is really about a romanticization of the exotic and unknown, while British culture is too similar to the mainstream culture of the United States to strike a similar movement. The music of the British Invasion did initially have its own distinctive style, similar to Japanese cartoons in being a foreign reinterpretation of an aspect of American popular culture. Within just a few short years, however, the unique qualities of British rock music were in turn adopted by American musicians, to the extent that it can sometimes be difficult to tell what side of the pond a band or artist comes from. New styles of music have arisen on either side of the Atlantic many times since then, but they never really acquire a unique national identifier before they're consumed by the rest of the Anglophone world (just look at the emergence of the punk movement). Meanwhile, American animators and video game developers have certainly borrowed elements from the Japanese, but the large gap in culture and language will always distinguish the two.

I think an interesting topic would be whether or not another non-Western culture could strike a trend as successful as Japanophilia in the United States. Chinese, Russian, and Islamic World influences would be challenging considering the political environments from the second half of the 20th Century onward. Could a distinctively Korean, Taiwanese, or Malaysian form of entertainment emerge that is autonomous enough from Japanese pop culture? Perhaps something from India, Israel, Latin America, or anywhere in sub-Saharan Africa?
 
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