I do think Britain is more like Europe, though I think politically since Thatcher, at least, and culturally since the internet made it easier to get U.S. films and TV shows at the same time that people in the U.S. did (and vice versa, to the extent of Doctor Who and Sherlock at least) and share a culture of talking about these things, that has been becoming less true. With the rise of xenophobia and anti-European sentiment that UKIP have been riding, Britain's willingness to follow the U.S. into inadvisable wars when (almost) no one else will, and an increasing stigma against people on any kind of benefits even as those who need them struggle more and more just to survive, I do see the UK reminding me more of the U.S. all the time. But even people quite happy to talk obsessively at me about Game of Thrones or how exciting it is that "red cups" are in Starbucks again also tell me that America's crap and American things are crap and as an American I should be ashamed...not quite in so many words, usually (though sometimes it is!). The cognitive dissonance can be tiring to deal with.