If so, what is it about Britain and British culture that you love so much? Is the accent? (I remember the accent getting LOTS of attention when I was last in Texas and NYC!) Or is it the TV?
Have a nice cup of tea and tell us all about it.
I like tea much more than coffee … usually green, but on occasion a proper Earl Grey. (No milk though.) I also admit to liking the accent, in all its amazing varieties. Of course, I love much of British comedy too. And soccer … well, I can forgive you for that.
I hate your spelling though. I’m an aggressively American speller: theater, gray, canceled, programer, … take that UK!
Normally, I am turned off by the English accent, even more so in women, and English children are torture to listen to. If prisoners of war were required to listen to English child-actors, it would be classified as an atrocity. And real-life British children talk like that, too.
However, I do watch some World Cup games, just to hear the wonderful British play by play commentators, who have a magnificent style that they bring to the pitch. So refreshing after the droning babble of American sportscasters.
Programer? You can’t just do that, can you? It hurts to read that.
I was, and hard-core, for most of my life. Recently I’m kind of getting over it. No more tolerance for Victorian novels, no more interest in PBS dramas. I’ve even sold most of my Spode.
The big ol’ load of cultural knowledge is probably with me for life, though.
That’s ok, we almost forgive you for American “chocolate” 
My wife and daughter are.
Yes. I like the idea of the monarchy, where you have an apolitical head of state and and elected official who actually runs things. In the US, the head of state is now despised by say 1/3 of the people. I think you need someone in power (albeit quite limited) that most everybody admires.
I also like Britcoms, always loved Are You Being Served? and Keeping Up Appearances, now really enjoying Viscious.
As a Cymrophile, no.
I am, though I think in a slightly different way than many/most of my fellow Americans who would claim the title. My impression is that a lot of self-proclaimed Anglophiles think being British is the epitome of class, or wit, or education. Or else they are devotees of obscure British TV shows and like to go on about how much better British comedy is, how Americans just don’t get sarcasm, and so on.
I don’t think any of that, and I don’t watch any British TV (though I’m sure much of it is good). Instead, I’m an Anglophile because a) it’s an incredibly beautiful country, in both its physical terrain and its man-made structures, b) it has produced far more than its share of excellent culture, c) it has a fascinating and often moving history, and d) it is home to what is, for my money, the greatest city in the world, bar none.
ETA: And e) I have experienced great personal kindness from Brits. I lived for a year in the country, and it was one of the best in my life. I’d be living there now if my visa had been approved. So if any available British girls read this and are interested in getting an American passport… 
My Mom would disown me for saying so (her family were hardcore Fenians), but I guess I have to call myself an Anglophile. Too many of my favorite authors and thinkers are ENglish for me to say anything else.
And when I look around the world, I think the nations colonized by England are generally better off than those that weren’t. For all their faults, the English left behind a legacy of republican government and a reverence for education wherever they went.
I watch a lot of British television and some of my favorite bands are British.
I do end up knowing about British culture and politics through some of the shows I watch, but I don’t set out to read the British newspapers or watch BBC news.
While my favorite comedies are almost all British, I don’t think I really find the UK to be superior. I just appreciate it as something different.
Growing up in Pakistan, there was a lot of dissonance, and 27 years after emigrating to the US, I’m still struggling with this. Historically we hated the British for colonialism and the racism and dehumanizing treatment “we” suffered (the “we” is really my grandparents who worked in the Indian Civil Service during the Raj). But then of course we studied in the “Cambridge” system of education, took O-levels and A-levels, played cricket, followed the FA Cup and Wimbledon, thought you weren’t properly educated if you didn’t know Shakespeare inside and out, and drank tea with milk and sugar. And of course the BBC was the pinnacle of journalistic excellence.
I’m still a Republican (in the British sense) and was absolutely horrified at the Americans going gaga over the royal weddings. But I still watch britcoms and masterpiece mystery. I still got a chill taking my daughter to visit Lords Cricket Ground. I still say “bloody hell” and my daughter chides me “I wish you wouldn’t say that. It’s so vulgar.” So I seem to have infected the next generation.
Movie heroes and villains always sound better in a posh RP accent.
Monty Python and Benny Hill are hilarious.
Royal scandals are more entertaining than presidential scandals. For scandal, the Windsors are no worse than the Kennedys or Clintons. For entertainment, the Windsors are much better than the Kardashians.
Like astorian, I think Britain’s ex-colonies tend to be in better shape than other countries’ ex-colonies.
I’ve never been, but I’ve always believed this.
I blame The Secret Garden and the Chronicles of Narnia and those E. Nesbit books and Jane Eyre and Watership Down and all the rest of those wonderful English children’s books. Clearly, England is the only place that really matters.
And of course the accent is beautiful. The only problem I think I would have in visiting England is that anyone could say any stupid thing to me in that accent and I would totally go along with it.
I’m an Anglophile, more for law and government and history than for culture. (I don’t get British humor.) Our most cherished freedoms are inheritances from Great Britain–trial by jury, limited government, the rule of law, free speech, freedom of religion, an elected legislature, freedom from arbitrary arrest and detention. All were polished by centuries of hard experience in Great Britain while they were virtually unknown elsewhere in the world.
We no longer owe allegiance to the Queen, and I’m glad, but she still symbolizes (to me, anyway) the centuries-old legal and constitutional order of which we are the inheritors.
William Safire once wrote about the enjoyable experience of being in England, and watching Parliament debate–
He enjoyed seeing two very British phenomena:
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well-educated people speaking very articulately with pleasant accents, and
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grownup gentlemen stamping and shuffling their feet.
Yes! Since I was tiny. My mother was an Anglophile. I appreciate their literature, TV, movies, actors, absolutely their pronunciation of words and more.
I think it’s fair to say that I am (glances at my username). I have been since high school. It started off the usual way - PBS British comedies late at night, which sparked a desire to get more and more.
These days, I probably consume more British culture than I do American. The BBC is absolutely fantastic, both television and radio. While there may be individual examples of superior American product, British entertainment is far and away more intelligent and rewarding than is American, and I’m including everything - comedy, drama, documentary, whatever. I can’t count how many times I’ve watched a random documentary on a whim and have just been blown away by the feeling of being exposed to some wad of knowledge I never would have discovered otherwise.
But it’s not just entertainment. I love the culture. Yes, there’s the tired comparison of senses of humor, sarcasm, self-deprecation, and whatnot. Everyone mentions it, but that’s because it’s true. I admire the way the Brits genuinely value the quality of life. All those thousands of years of habitation, and there are still vast swathes of land that are unspoiled and incredibly beautiful, because people CARE. There’s an attitude toward British politics that people can still make an actual, genuine difference, which seems to be all but extinct in the US. Brits can still muster outrage when they find out a politician is corrupt!
I’ve also visited twice and had a fantastic time both times. Each time, getting on board that plane at Heathrow felt like I was leaving my home behind me rather than returning to it. I posted a thread recently about how I’d genuinely like to relocate there. Actually doing so is looking less and less feasible, and I’m finding that desperately depressing.
My wife is definitely and Anglophile. She married me