I'm really sorry this has happened to you. I'm afraid that there is a noticeable tendency of some people in the UK to pick on the USA as an acceptable target for at the very least condescension and at worst outright bigotry. On more than one occasion I've been with one or other American friend when someone has made a breathtakingly offensive generalisation about the USA, only to say to to the friend in question "Oh, I forgot you were American", as if that excuses it.
I've never had the privilege of being invited to a proper Thanksgiving, nor been in the USA at the relevant time. But as it happens some of our friends regularly hold a party in late November that has a Thanksgiving theme, not in any way out of mockery but because we enjoy the opportunity to cook and share traditional American food. (I got my friend from Boston to give me her mother's recipe for Apple Pie, and since E's mother is a fully-qualified member of the DAR I assume that this would indeed be the proverbial Apple Pie That Things Are As American as.)
Again, I am so sorry this has happened and feel quite embarrassed about it. We must treat you to some hospitality at some point soon to make up for it.
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Date: 2014-11-09 10:07 pm (UTC)I've never had the privilege of being invited to a proper Thanksgiving, nor been in the USA at the relevant time. But as it happens some of our friends regularly hold a party in late November that has a Thanksgiving theme, not in any way out of mockery but because we enjoy the opportunity to cook and share traditional American food. (I got my friend from Boston to give me her mother's recipe for Apple Pie, and since E's mother is a fully-qualified member of the DAR I assume that this would indeed be the proverbial Apple Pie That Things Are As American as.)
Again, I am so sorry this has happened and feel quite embarrassed about it. We must treat you to some hospitality at some point soon to make up for it.