Fry blasts Brits' anti-Americanism (From thisisoxfordshire)

Fry blasts Brits' anti-Americanism

1:38pm Tuesday 4th November 2008

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Stephen Fry has criticised "sneering" anti-Americanism among the British, ahead of the US Presidential elections.

Fry told Good Housekeeping magazine British snobbery towards Americans "horrifies" him.

He said: "When they mock America for its supposed lack of knowledge, irony or sophistication, they are revealing nothing but the pathetic inadequacy and inferiority complex of the British.

"I absolutely hate that sneering anti-Americanism."

The comedian, writer and actor has published a book version of his BBC TV documentary Stephen Fry in America, for which he toured the 50 states of the US in a black cab.

He told the magazine: "It (anti-Americanism) always comes from people who don't know America (outside of TV or a holiday in Orlando).

"It has its share of nuts: out of a quarter of a billion people you're always going to get some.

"But they are as polite, friendly, charming and honourable as any people I have encountered."

His full interview appears in the December issue of Good Housekeeping magazine, on sale on Thursday.

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