My dearest love America,

Please come back to the Empire. It's not the same without you. Australia is to far away, India isn't in the mood any more and Canada is just so bland. We need each other. We worked so well together. Remember who we almost wiped out the Natives back when you were in your colonisation phase? Fun times had by all.

America, please forget that silly Declaration and rejoin the British Empire.

Yours lovingly,

The British Empire.

PS: Whatever you decided I can respect, have a Happy Independence day.


(For those who don't get it: in here we celebrate the 4th of July.)

I'd love to get back together.

You chaps favor the indian food and your currency isn't that bad at the moment.
But the spelling drives me nuts. All the extra o's , e's and u's

colour, flavour, oedema , and oesophagus. ROAR

Dear, dear British Empire,

You're right, we did have some good times, but indeed, time has changed us both. You weren't there when I needed you most; you claimed my achievements as your own; you didn't listen to me, yet still expected me to obey your every whim. That kind of relationship would never work in the long-run. It was suffocating. It was better to break it off early than to let it drag on. I'm sure you'll understand eventually.

I appreciate all that you've done for me, all the people you have sent over and the traditions you've set in place--I really do. But you never gave me the attention I wanted--needed. I wanted to be your one and only, but you set your sights all over the world. The Declaration was a big deal for me. It was the sign that I was ready to stand on my own. Though it is unlikely that we will ever go back to the relationship we once had, I'm sure we can still remain good friends. Unless you do something to piss me off, in which case I'll call you a terrorist and steal your bases. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.

Sincerely yours,

The United States of America

Dearest Independant U.S.A,

Please remember all we have done for you. Our television has all but given up trying to find slots in its schedule that will not clash with your shows you so kindly sent our way. Our resturants simply cannot compete with your fastfood eateries. In film, well known Brits are often played by Americans. Our ex Prime Minister even gave up his spine to that delightful Mr Bush. We have changed...we have changed for you. Come back to us, you will feel rather at home here, we no longer "suck". I know you love us really, we have that thing called "history" all the movie stars are talking about. We'll all talk like we're from London if it helps ease the confusion.

All we ask is that you spell colour with a "u", for not spelling it with a "u" is obviously such a silly error, you can see that surely?

The Greatest of Greats

Britain x

(Happy Independance Day ya'll. Thank-you for reminding us how patriotic it is possible to be)

Dearest UK,

Please take us back!!

Yes, I consider myself to be patriotic, but I also need better health insurance coverage.
If you take us back, I wouldn't mind spelling a.s.s as arse, or however you spell it...


But meantime...

Happy July 4th, fellow Americans!!

My friend and ally, I don't begrudge the ways you have accommodated me since WWI--and because you have been such a darling, I must be honest with you: it's not you. It's me. I fear that I have made some terrible mistakes in the past 7 years, mistakes that didn't happen out of the blue. In retrospect, I know that most of it was my fault and that I can't blame anyone...but it will take some time. What happened in recent history did not happen out of the blue. My ego, my arrogance...yes, I know how the world saw me yet I charged right on with my own agendas like some global superpower. I know now that I'm not so 'super'...at least, not in the way I want to be. So though I have changed a lot since I broke up with you, I want to change even more now that I've seen the error of my ways.

I'm sorry that the influences I've had over you have generally been damaging to your own health and prosperity. I feel that it's better if you keep your distance from me for a little longer. Don't get me wrong--I am grateful for all that you've done. I just don't think this is the right time to jump back into your arms. I fear that such behavior from me will do you more harm than good.

Please understand that you are not lacking in any way. I believe that, in the long run, I have had a negative influence on you. I would like to think that our reunion would solve all our problems, but that would be much too naive. After the events of the past 7 years, I realize that what I need are friends in this world. I'm glad that you have not relinquished this post. I think it will be more beneficial for both of us if we remain as good friends. I don't want to tie you down to my problems.

After 200+ years of Independence, it would be much too hard to go back to you. I'm not ready yet. Please, don't wait for me; I don't know how long it will be. I urge you to go your own way, find your place in the world again...and I will do the same. As friends, I hope to learn from you and adopt things that have worked for you (but modified so it would work for me, who have become so different from you).

In short: I just need to get over myself. It'll take a while. It won't be worth your time to wait for me.

Friends forever,

America, the Beautiful


P.S. See? My ego strikes again. :(

(Patriotism...heh. I'm just here for the fireworks! :D /mei-not-speaking-as-the-U.S)

You can stop doing the letters thing now ans just celebrate the fun times.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=PWzUumHhcGg

Bu the letters were fun.

*pops confetti*

Dear America,
Fine! Be that way. If you don't want to get bacl together then that's you choice. We've been seeing Canada behind your back anyway. We had a beautiful thing and you ruined by not wanting to be taxed.

Yours, Britain.

I can't take country talk seriously since Hetalia >w>

I got out of seeing fireworks today. Yay >w< (I hate those things, too scary...)

Dear UK,

We learned recently that you guys are still keeping one of our original copies of Declaration of Independence .
We lost most of our original copies. Can we have that one back? You guys don't want to hold on to that and keep getting reminded about us having left you, right?

P.S. We can send you some more ipods with the Presidential seal in return, like, for every member of your Parliament?

Maybe.

America is pretty awesome.

Tombow - act like you don't want it back...maybe we'll think about it.

I wouldn't suggest the iPod's though, the last thing our MP's need are something to suggest the have some importance in life. The might even claim insuring it as a business expense.

Dearest America please return to our beloved empire! The things we could do together and see together! The British Empire simply isn't the same without you, think of all the things Britania did for you, are you really ready to stand all by yourself? Come back to the empire and you can have better health care and learn to spell words with the vowels they are meant to contain. Regardless, of what i am sure will be a smart desicion...

Happy independence day! (for yesterday XD) lots of love from the UK

I don't think we can go back to a country that has such an over-hyped soccer team

^We just got burned. But I couldn't agree more!

Happy Independence Day, America!

Odd, I don't remember us having a soccer team.

This is the best way to return after a long absence.

So you support the violations of liberties against the colonists, such as hindering commerce which damaged the colonial economy (President Obama is doing something similar with cap and trade), criminalizing expansion of territory, taxation without representation, the Townsend Acts, the murder of five innocent civilians in Boston, and the Intolerable Acts, ALL methods of oppression by the tyrannical King George against the colonists?

And do you also believe that other countries' independences were terroristic acts against THEIR legally recognized rulers? India? You don't see me criticizing the Filipino movement for independence as I am against imperialism, the similar kind that America rebelled against in the American Revolution.

In some countries you would be tracked down, kidnapped, and never seen again for your statement which would be labeled as "hate speech." In America that would never happen. Think about it.

Note that the word "Soccer" is a British shortening of the term Association Football. So we can't help but keep to our old British roots even.

Oh, and Go Germany!

Wouldn't the terrorist acts in Iraq and Afghanistan be also an attempt to gain independence from their perceived current rulers. Remember, the American rebellion was acted on by the minority of people and not a popular rebellion at the time. All rebellions are justified only in the eyes of the beholder.

What terrorist acts? Are you actually insinuating the United States military committed terrorist acts against an inhumane dictator (though my thoughts on Iraq are my own) due to the possibility of cooperation between Al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein, and also implying that the United States presence in Afghanistan, the home base of Al Qaeda, the same group that was behind the mass murder of 3,000 innocent men women and children plus many more in other parts of the globe, is one of TERRORISM? I'd like a list of these terrorist acts (for your information, the majority of civilians killed in Iraq and Afghanistan were due to insurgent attacks if that is what you're trying to say; collateral damage done by the U.S. is expected, any collateral damage is expected in any war) We were attacked by Al Qaeda. It is our duty to completely rout them out. Or am I supporting terrorism. Do some research on combat operations by the military, don't base what you hear from media and entertainment.

Do you actually believe what you said to me? Or are you simply politicizing something that you've heard from anti-war activists or thinkers combined with a disdain for America's actions against a violent Islamic extremist group?

Onto your mention of the rebellion, half of colonists supported the rebellion, while less than 1/5 of all the colonists were loyalists. The rest were neutral. Have you heard of the saying "One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter?" On the contrary to what you said, the British public was divided on the matter of the American Revolution. People like Edmund Burke, a British national and political thinker of the time, supported the rebels and understood their plight against the tyrant King George.

I don't understand why I'm being persecuted by this type of baseless political rhetoric when all I mentioned was the birth of America and the day I, as an American, celebrate it on.

I'm no white knight. There are things America has done that I have been ashamed of. No country is innocent. But I believe in the core principles that my Founding Fathers fought for against tyranny two-hundred years ago.

I believe the persecution is in your head. I just think that you missed the point completely.

I don't believe any country has ghosted people away for hate crimes. Treason and various "crimes against the state" maybe, but not hate speech.


You get to live in America, land of sunshine and really picturesque places (New Jersey now withstanding). We have to stay in Britain, l;and of gloom and misery. I think it's a fair trade.


Hey, The Who are a great act.


I learned about this at Kent state!


You mean the Patriot Act, all that oppression by and President George Bush against "we the people", right?



That's right, son, you're a red, White and Blue knight, fighting the good fight under the rockets red glare! Show those Red Coats what freedom tastes like! It' tastes like a boot to their yellow, misshapen teeth!

Woop, woop! This is all getting heated! Best Filipino-America Friendship day ever!

Please. It's anti-American sentiment. You had me at "world police." But whatever, since I'm a lazy American I'm innately ignorant right?



Any negative opinions or statements made by people resulted in disappearance. You don't need to look far for various regimes, past and current. Saddam Hussein? Interestingly enough, did you know that "hate speech" is against the law in Canada? They won't lock you up in an unknown jail but they'll definetly prosecute you. I'm not joking. It's that kind of tyranny our past patriots fought against.



Jersey's not as eloquent as you might think lol, visit Camden and East Newark and all the places with Jersey Shore wannabes



The difference is, there is a legitimate threat out there that puts innocent lives at risk. This isn't tyranny or oppression; the Patriot Act has proven to show results and has proven to save not just American, but global citizens' lives. This past decade, due to the Patriot Act, which was a response to the 9/11 attacks that claimed 3,000 lives, we have stopped nearly two-dozen terrorist attacks. That's 24! We stopped subway bomb plots and the like, not to mention we prevented attacks on a military base in my state (Ft. Dix) We are 3 steps ahead of them because of the Patriot Act. Oppression means abuse of authority in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner. I believe the events of 9/11 justified the Patriot Act.

My father was 3 blocks from the World Trade Center on 9/11. The things he saw, the people he saw jumping out of the buildings..just awful. One of my friend's dad's died in the towers, another friend's uncle was never found and is still listed as missing. My father does not want to relive that day. I don't want any American or non-American to. And yet violent Islamic extremists hail this as a victory for Islam. They are a threat I take very seriously.





*sigh* I don't want to cause any trouble. You have every right to an opinion whether I agree with it or not. That's all I have to say.

Those statements aren't counted as hate speech, they're treason. Learn what hate speech is.

Yes and for the most part it's not a bad thing. Arresting and punishing people for invoking hate and violence based on race, gender or sexuality is pretty fair to me. I really don't think you know what hate speech is.


The fact America rebelled and took away our colony seems to have shown we weren't oppressing you enough. Evidently we would have been justified in binding all your hands and ankles.




Don't worry though, once Obama fully nationalises your health care (I can't believe you guys are falling into that trap) you'll be put in front of a death panel and this thread will be the least of your concerns.

As they say: God bless America!

I do know what it is, I was using it in a separate context, which I should have been a little more clear on. I was talking about criticism against the government (In my opinion, hate speech simply involves hate. If someone acts out hatespeech against the government, wouldn't that be due to that persons hate of the government? Maybe I'm simplifying it but that's just my personal interpretation)



They CAN go hand in hand if hate speech involves government criticism which is something I stressed in my bit above.



Oh he already did. And death panels will be real my friend. They already exist in England. How and why? Rationing and lack of money. I can compile a list of news articles that can help you understand how rationing can essentially result in death panels: because people ARE dying from rationing.

Dear England:

It's hard to believe that 234 years ago America was born. I wish it occurred with no violence, but unfortunately the many actions of peace the colonists carried out were received with deaf ears, though I know a number of you did support our struggle against tyranny. On behalf of my people, I will say that the American revolution was not personal. Only business.

But times have changed now. We are now strong allies. Without you we would not have been the nation that we are today. I'd be lying if I said America is not perfect. But can anybody say that every country is? Sure we may have made several mistakes over the many many years, but I'm proud to say we have overcome those dark moments in my country such as the Civil War and segregation.

Of course we have our differences: you call soccer football and we call it..well, soccer. You spell things like color as "colour" when we dont, but, you guys do have pretty amusing slang. Who knew "piss and chips" meant vinegar and fries/chips/etc!

Sadly I do not desire to rejoin the Empire. It is my belief however, that we keep things the way they are. It is also my belief that the birth of America was inevitable, something destined to happen. If this continent was not colonized and if the events of the American Revolution did not culminate, who knows what the fabric of history would have been sewn with, not just for you, but for the entire world. Take anything out of history's cycle, who knows what changes might occur?

Despite our differences, be it policical or cultural, one thing I know is for certain: we have proud citizens, something DEFINETLY inherited. Without you, I would not be sitting here typing this message. Your small step on this continent gave us the giant leap forward. For that I thank you in the kindest and most sincere ways. Perhaps our partnership was meant to be, like the Ishvallans and Amestrians teaming up in the finale

Anyway, do take care of yourself. Thank you for everything, and thank you for Monty Python and Borat for teaching us how to laugh. You have our sword and our support.


Your loving neighbor across the pond,

America.

P.S. Maybe we can fix this different outlets and different PAL DVD region things so everything can be conveniently universal. And maybe we can make a weather machine to make it stop raining over there

Don't feel like discussing the matter here. I'm over it.

D: I've never walked into a chippy and ordered "piss and chips". xD Never heard of that before in my life.

There is a great deal the media has to be guilty for. For example;

- we are not all cockneys
- we don't use cockney rhyming slang
- there is a whole country outside of London
- we don't worship the Queen
- our beer isn't warm, it has a taste though, something not to be found in a Bud.
- we do have sex and not just tea
- our teeth are fine. Perfectly straight, even and snow white looks unatural, because it IS unatural.
- we don't all worship the football, and we aren't boring just because we can watch a sport that doesn't involve violence.
- chips and peas more likely than piss.
- Yes, we put a "u" in words, part of being English is...would you believe...using English!

Don't speak for all Americans. In fact everything that you have represented here makes me sad for America because your inflexibility and inability to see an issue from outside of an overly zealous nationalistic agenda is killing America.

BTW, there is no true free speech anywhere in the world. In the United States, there are still special utterances that are not considered free. In addition to this, there other things that if said or put into print can allow for civil penalties.

I cannot speak more because it would be the same as talking to a wall. You do not process the fact that America is not the greatest country in the world as there is no greatest country in the world. America is on par with many of the other countries that are also not perfect. We have somethings that we do really well and many that we do not do well (the same for all countries).

I'm overzealous and inflexible for making legitimate facts and arguments? Did you READ my posts? Or is your disdain for Americans like me who think for themselves and only for themselves who stand up for what they believe so great that anything I say to back myself up makes you frustrated? I made legitimate points which oddly enough if you can believe it from an overzealous, fat lazy American like me, can be backed up with sources ;) Our nation is one that is not frozen in time without any kind of growth. We keep evolving constantly. As for your bit on free speech, those types of things are involved with the federal government more often than not, and besides, the way Washington is today, many lawmakers must look back on the Constitution and the principles this country was founded on.



"Talking to a wall," typical. Very typical. Because I'm not educated enough or I'm too ignorant?

And when did I say that America was the greatest country on earth? I might think it is. I might not. But I do know that I am proud to be a part of a nation that is unique on its own, and in my opinion, the most free nation on earth. That may not make it the best country, but it's the best choice for me and only me to swear my allegiance to. Nothing is perfect. No country is. You don't see me waving a flag and making pro-American statements. But here are the facts: we are one of the first to respond to any natural disaster around the globe, such as the tsunami years ago and recently, the earthquake in Hati. Do you think that merits something? I don't. Because we are demonstrating American values as we should be.

I'm a proud American individual who deeply believes in the values and principles founded by the Founding Fathers. Thinkers like Ben Franklin, Thomas Paine, even English statesmen like Edmund Burke, and documents like the Federalist Papers, influence my thoughts. Believe me there are things America has done that has disappointed me greatly. But I know in my heart that the founding principles are all that matter.

I don't know what I did to deserve this, all I did was acknowledge that July 4th is an important date in American history. That's my crime. Whatever. Let's agree to disagree.

All I know is....If Sarah Palin manages to become President in 2012. I will be swimming across the Atlantic, and marrying the first Brit I meet. XD

btw belated happy 4th of July!

"Well, posterity, you will never know what it cost us to preserve your freedom. I only hope that you will make a good use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in heaven that I ever took half the pains to preserve it." ---John Adams

@ Zonkie I'd take Palin over Obummer any day...

I don't understand why people piss all over her... so what if her daughter has a child out of wedlock, so what if she can see Russia from her backyard... at least she stands up for what she believes in and doesn't spread Socialistic ideals across the Union.... fetch... I hope she does win just to spite all those Democrats that try to smear her...

Dear England,

I would gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today... No but really, if you send me "real" cadbury candy, I would gladly send you Lucky Charms.... in the exchange of this trade, I may consider coming back since my current Commander and Chief prefers to "play rounds of golf" instead of tending to the serious issues at hand and "file lawsuits against perfectly legal and reasonable laws" that are created to protect the citizens of America.... *sighs* the past is the past, I forgive the excessive tax and I hope you forgive the destruction all that tea.... XD

Sincerly,

America



I'm aware this was a tad late but hey I wasn't around HERE on the fourth...