#America vs England

[nationmckinleyscorset]

I actually dated someone American and we exchanged info on school systems lol

Accidental info dump below the cut (sorry loves)

Over here college is 16-18 (or whatever age you apply, anyone can go to college. For example my friend is 20 and there's some 19 year old in our class who took a level 2 course before getting progressed onto level 3 so they're doing an extra year) after that you can do university or higher education in general. Our uni is your "college".

My ex actually told me they don't have apprenticeships over there either, that's an alternative to college where you get paid to do on the job training.

Hope this helps!

Oh yeah also we have year groups rather than grades

Infant school:

Reception = 4-5 (yrs old)

Year 1 = 5-6

Year 2 = 6-7

Junior school:

Year 3 = 7-8

Year 4 = 8-9

Year 5 = 9-10

Year 6 = 10-11

High/secondary school:

Year 7 = 11-12

Year 8 = 12-13

Year 9 = 13-14

Year 10 = 14-15

Year 11 = 15-16

Then you can choose college or sixth form - sixth form is 2 years where you stay at secondary school but with perks like not having to wear uniform and taking only the subject you want to do rather than being forced to do 3+core subjects

Core subjects are maths, English and science, these are non optional

You choose 3 others in I think year 10 (I think this has changed now and you have to pick 4) so you get classes for that as well as the core subjects. You have to study those for GCSE which is our equivalent of your SATs.

You also have to do PE (physical education aka gym class), that's non optional but you don't get assessed or have an exam on it

We take SATs in year 6 and a mock version in year 2

Some schools are called primary schools which means it's infants and junior mushed together.

Jeeeeeeez that's a lot of writing. Sorry I know you asked a simple question but I'm oddly interested in this shit.

At college you take 1 subject, that's seperate to school and it's a different building, different set up etc. We don't have dorms and we don't stay on campus it's like school but with no uniform, no detention, no petty punishments and more relaxed teachers. There also tends to be less bullying since it's optional. You also go in for less days most of the time unless it's a prestigious college like the one I initially applied for with runs 9-5 5 days a week.

Even though college is optional you have to do college or an apprenticeship, you can't just immediately find a job or drop out because it's illegal.

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[dannydevitosthiccdog]

More people should think about objective and subjective sizes in relation to countries.

The only example I can give (because it's all I have personal experience in) is Americans saying England is small when English try to say their country is big.

We know objectively that America is bigger, but we may only have experience of a few places.

Subjectivly, England IS big to someone who doesn't leave their hometown, to someone who hasnt left England.

[toasterghostie]

Imagine American Zelda fans slamming Brits over transphobia but they're shit talking the train service and incorrectly tagging their posts

[lycantrin]

I haven't drawn a ton of fully rendered stuff this year but this is a decent compilation of what I'm most proud of!!!

Happy New Year!!!

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[haunted-armour-shell]

Canada is a moose. A big fuck-off moose. A moose so large you look at it and remember that, actually, megafauna still exist in a few corners of the world. That humans are small in the history of species. A moose so big that you don't want to mess with him because though he is prey and you are a predator he could kill you with one blow.

England uses him as the benchmark for all his herbivore children. Are you as big as Canada's moose? Are you as dangerous as Canada's moose?

(Australia was a grey kangaroo, first. The first time she fully shifts England scoffs. She was still a joey then. (She never got to grow past a joey. She had to change.) Barely bigger than England's badger and he looks at her and thinks prey, thinks weak, thinks all the things that no one thinks when looking at Canada.)

America is an eagle. (A big eagle, don't get me wrong, but a bird. He can perch on Canada's antlers and Canada barely feels the weight.)

Before his revolution he was a mountain lion. The closest thing to the lion so much of Europe has claimed as their emblem. England claimed it was for him. (But America had another family, before England stole him. And his Sire was the Lion from the North. Not that anyone remembers.)

Australia is a crocodile now. If England wasn't a predator himself, she would be the pinnacle. (But he is. And no matter how much more impressive a one-tonne, six-metre crocodile is than a 26 kilo badger, he is the British Empire and therefore he is the benchmark.)

Canada was a beaver before he was a moose. Like Australia, England looked at him and said he had to change. But he couldn't make himself a predator. He was gentle.

No, not gentle.

He wasn't aggressive. A predator requires a level of aggression, a level of go-getter-ism that Canada couldn't bring himself to have. He always prefers to be reactive, rather than proactive.

Therefore, the moose.

And it's helpful in other ways. You can't ride an eagle or a crocodile to safety. They can't pull a carriage or a sleigh. (Or a car, a few notable times.) A crocodile cannot travel as far or as fast on land as a moose. An eagle cannot swim like a moose.

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[milaisreading]

Another day, another bladder sacrifice

[thirdlotusprince3]

America: If me and France were drowning, who would you save?

Britain: You two can’t swim?

America: Its a hypothetical question, who would you save?

Britain: Probably my time and effort.

[aurabora]

who would win in a fight 2014 spamano and usuk cosplayers with their livejournal accounts or the 2024 tiktok anti-proshipper with DNI and ‘07 in their bio?

[jinxedshapeshifter]

I kinda love that even in the non voice acted dialogue, Ryunosuke still speaks with an obvious English accent/dialect, and he seems to be kinda just picking it up from the English people around him as a way of fitting in better. Just got him thinking "It was bothering me before, this was" which isn't phrasing I've ever heard from an American. It's very distinctly English phrasing to me.

This also actually implies a bit about his education, because it would indicate that his English teacher in Japan was from England.

[overclockedopossum]

I did a tumblr search for 'british miku' since @thanook has been spamming my dash with brazilian mikus and found the following:

A handful of poorly-drawn but sincere efforts

An absolute torrent of jingoistic anglophobia from people with no self-awareness

Two weird tradposts that reflect zero understanding of actual british history

Exactly one (1) good post

[godofstory]

🕯🕯🕯🕯manifesting Spain and Argentina's win tonight🕯🕯🕯🕯

🕯🕯🕯🕯manifesting my boys scoring🕯🕯🕯🕯

🕯🕯dear higher force, you put us Barcelona fans through it all this season, please let us have this win so we can be happy for atleast 2 weeks before Barcelona matches start again and we suffer for a whole year all over again🕯🕯

[death-by-mercury]

There HAS to be cheating in this euro cup, the biased goalie giving England that penalty kick for what??? I swear the goalies are always biased and it’s so unfair! It’s always who the goalies want to win that get the advantage. Even those commentators make the most biased and obnoxious comments that always raise the team they like best up and the team they don’t like down. It’s the same with Copa America.

[imayjustbejamesmoriarty]

The funniest thing about learning English mostly from the internet and TV is the look people give you when you accidentally mix American English and British English.

Throw in some dyslexia and it becomes even more fun.

Will I be using 'math' or 'maths' today? Is it 'gray' or 'grey'? How do you pronounce aluminium?

I'm just as confused as you are!

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