I am an Anglophile, but not as much as my brother - he moved there and married an Englishwoman! Moved to Winchester, and took up Morris Dancing as a hobby. 
It is no secret that Received Pronunciation makes my knees weak.I love the British sense of humor. I also come from a country that was conquered by the Brits for 400 years but we all have a love-hate relationship to them.
Give me tall, thin and snarky over the American cowboy any day. Luckily my SO is all that and can do a fine RP and looks great in a suit.
Fair enough; this opinion just seems to be at odds with that of the other (admittedly small handful of) British people I know.
Still, its better than annoyance. As an example, remember how you were feeling before reading this as opposed to after.
See? 
Thank you! So… you don’t want us to share then?
cold crisp crunch
Not sure about that.
It’s true that the United States and Canada are more prosperous than any Latin American country, for example, but all British colonies aren’t the United States or Canada. India and Nigeria, for example, are much poorer than any Latin American country, and the Anglo-Caribbean countries generally overlap with the Latin American ones. I don’t think you can make many broad generalizations about the quality of Spanish vs. British colonialism. The bigger difference seems to be between settler colonies, where Europeans moved in large numbers and brought their infrastructure, institutions, etc., and exploitation colonies where they just treated the place as a source of natural resources and cheap labour.
I keed, I keed.
I like most things British and Irish. If I called myself an Anglophile my husband would probably divorce me. He always twitches if someone refers to him as British (he’s from Belfast). It’s interesting because I’ve met other people from Northern Ireland who proudly refer to themselves as British, but my husband says he’s Irish first (mom’s Catholic, dad was Protestant).
I am. I even moved to England from 1988 to 1992. The humor (or would that be humour) strikes me as especially funny. I loved to watch British TV on PBS back in the day and often have BBC America on the TV today.
Sorry, I should have explained myself.
All right, if I said “representative government,” would you be happier?
It’s important to note that the American rebels of 1776 started out by demanding their “rights as Englishmen.” That’s a very important phrase. I don’t think anyone had ever previously asserted his rights as a Spaniard, or as a German.
England gave all her subjects, at home and in colonies abroad, a sense of entirlement to inalienable rights. That’s a very valuable legacy.
William Shakespeare had me at hello.
FTR- I was teasing** amanset **and Bibliovore. Sometimes, lately, some of what I say comes out with a harder edge than it used to. I really am sorry if I caused offense and there are many wonderful things I’ve heard
about the UK and have experianced briefly from people who hail from there. I hope that I can shed some of my bitterness and be funnier (or at least nicer on occasion) here.