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I can't believe Nigel Farage and a lot of pro Brexit campaigners have been calling it UK's "Independence day". Apart from being a very bad (purposeful?) analogy, it's seems to me pretty disrespectful to their own and to US history. I'm not from USA (or UK) but would love to hear how US and UK people feel about it?


Many countries have am independence day, not just America. Granted most are celebrating independence from us brits through.


"Independence day" is not exclusive to the US.


The film with the aliens and Jeff Goldblum made that particularly clear.


>I'm not from USA (or UK) but would love to hear how US and UK people feel about it?

I think it sounds like populist grandstanding. We've been hearing that sort of thing for a year now. We (the US) seem to have a lot of people buying into it though. We get to see first hand how stepping back from globalization looks like before we vote for it ourselves come November.




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