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Thank you We sneak Charles dickens What was dickins comedy

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like la shmoop at the time when he was writing

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insulting or making fun of americans was extremely popular in

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britain and it was a really easy way to sell

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novels and to get people to read because it was

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funny and people really thought about americans maybe even rightly

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so to a certain extent because we have to realize

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it was still very much a pioneer nation and only

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stretched out as far as the mississippi So you definitely

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had uneducated people people who were living and you know

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backwater hamlet it was very fun for the british and

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funny to make fun of americans americans didn't see it

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that theo americans hate it What chicken was said about

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them in the nonfiction the characters were obvious who he

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was talking about but even thinly veiled in the novel

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versions of what he said about americans and some of

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them he went so far as to talk about the

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president of united states He would talk about new women

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about how american women were so mouthy and so forward

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in america because of the political system and talking about

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politicians and how corrupt they were because of all the

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money they were taking in there and the lobbyists and

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so forth All of that was very thinly veiled and

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he just got nash by critics They read him for

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it and i just didn't have anything to do with

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him It was a while until the americans welcome to

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excited that for another visit Chickens was aware of us

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those well in the preface to something like martin charles

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of what he says something like i know that the

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americans have good enough sense of humor to take this

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the way they should and to accept like objective criticism

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It's One thing to have an englishman criticized the english

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but if you're foreigner holding americans it still doesn't work

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now What negative portrait of americans to dickens paint How

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did americans feel about dickens comedy How did the british

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feel about diggins comedy no america to britain You'll always 00:02:07.57 --> [endTime] be the colonies

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