Obama doesn't 'get' the UK because he's not white - Romney adviser

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Ahead of meeting fellow rich, out-of-touch, failed businessman right-winger David Cameron:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/mitt-romney/9424524/Mitt-Romney-would-restore-Anglo-Saxon-relations-between-Britain-and-America.html

The irony is that the elder Barack Hussein Obama was very much an Anglophile. Really, so is his on the current US President. The British colonial order succeeded to the extent that it could get the best and Brightest of its colonial empire to appreciate British ways transferable to the colonies -- basically everything but the religion.

Neither British nor American identity is based upon ethnicity -- except to the narrow, nativist Right in both countries.  

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This looks interesting ...

Some of the countries are terribly miscategorized. It is safe to say that the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Slovenia, and Croatia are part of "Catholic Europe". Communist influence in such countries is dead. Identity of western Germany as "Protestant Europe" is shaky because parts of western and especially southern Germany are strongly Catholic.

The "Asia" category lumps countries as disparate as the Philippines (which is culturally similar more to Latin America -- consider its history -- than any other part of Asia, even to such near-neighbors as China, Vietnam, Japan, Indonesia, and Malaysia) with India (a region in itself) or Turkey. There is no distinction between Islamic and non-Islamic countries.  Morocco and South Africa have little in common. Jordan and Morocco belong together.