This is also -I keep thinking how British we are; this is New England and this is the United States, a former British colony.

这也是...,我常想,我们真的很"英国",这里称为新英格兰地区,而美国过去也是英国的殖民地

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The American people, well, America used to be a British colony

美国人，美国曾经是英国的一个殖民地，

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Travelers from England and elsewhere, France, who would come to the American colonies and would travel throughout the colonies, would often comment on this, that somehow Southerners were different culturally, attitudinally, behaviorally.

那些从英格兰,法国或其他地方,来到美国殖民地,四处游历的旅行者们,常常会做出这样的评价,即南方人总是很特别,他们的文化,观念,行为均与众不同

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