Stephen Fry in USA

[NotAllThere]

...It's almost as embarassing to say you like the US these days as to admit you're a Christian or a terrorist or something.

As a Something American Christian Freedom Fighter, I couldn't agree more.

I loved the bit where Fry got a bit pissed in the distillary.

[Bagpuss]

I like Stephen Fry but Simon Schama's series on America has been far more interesting (but then it's history rather than froth)

[Pogle]

Froth can be good!
except on coffee of course.

[oracleslave]

I like Stephen Fry but Simon Schama's series on America has been far more interesting (but then it's history rather than froth)

Not seen the Schama series but looking at the bio it doesn't scream out interesting, must watch to me. It also appears to have a much narrower focus than the Fry series.

Episode 1: A look at America's waning belief in the infinite possibilities of its land and resources.

Episode 2: A look at how different the US attitude to war is from what outsiders assume it to be.

Episode 3: How faith has shaped American political life.

Episode 4: The bitter conflict over immigration in America.

[Bagpuss]

There was an interesting but about how Texas being stolen from The Mexicans, contrasting against how some present day Texans are protesting about the immigrants from Mexico
"they seem to think it was theirs"

[TheBigYinJames]

The Jock-straps have always held a morbid fascination with the Septics, must be an ancestral Celt thing I suppose.

When does jokery verge on racism?

You're right on one level, though. The US was primarily a celtic expedition, the oppressed and the poor (i.e. the celts from the British isles) went to America and made it big. Eventually they had to split from the English.

If the celts have an affinity with Americans it's because they are us, n generations on.