British remarked that Americans are "rather fat", while they are "rather slim". They're wrong, while 66% really is obese or overweight, British are not much better with 62%.

The British have an opinion of having very bad teeth. While in 1963 that opinion was true, and in 1978 1/3 of Wales had NO teeth left, now it is very different. The percent of missing teeth and cavities in Britain is lowest in Europe and the only reason they still get laughed at is the fact they refuse to use whitening strips and correcting crooked teeth.

British love tea and hate coffee, while Americans love coffee? About 42% of Americans in the age of 10-29 chose coffee and also about 42% prefer tea, about 16% like both... or none; and only 39% of young Brits love tea.

The old British stereotype was of a guy in a bowler hat cutting you with his devastating wit while sipping tea. Today, it’s more likely to be a drunken soccer hooligan punching you in the face while trying not to vomit. Although America has more murders, many perceive British society as a whole to be more violent. In 2010, the FBI reported 403 violent crimes per 100,000 people in America. By contrast, the UK Home Office reported a jaw-dropping 1,797 offenses per 100,000 people in the same time span. But as you see that in Britain violent crimes mean something else, and when you tahe only those crimes considered violent in America the numbers are even.

Americans don’t understand sarcasm. While British love sarcasm and even use it on people they like, with a laugh from the other person, Americans do understand sarcasm but prefer other forms of joking. In numbers 56 percent of Northerners and a majority of New Yorkers find sarcasm funny and a desirable quality, only 35 percent of Southerners do, and it’s not that they don’t get it. they not find it particularly appropriate.

Americans stated that they fight more than British and send their troops wherever they're needed, while British said that Americans are too fierce at sending troops. In reality the differences are not so big- around 75 percent of Americans agreed that “it is sometimes necessary to use military force to maintain order in the world,” compared with 70 percent of Brits. The British also send their troops to support others.

If Americans know anything about British culture, it’s that class is everything. Compared to the American dream, Britain is a stultifying fossil where the circumstances of your birth can dictate whether you’re ruling Downton Abbey or quietly scrubbing its kitchens. Many Americans believe that the rich have it much better in Britain, but they neglect to see the same can be said about America- those born into the poorest 20 percent of American households have only an 8 percent chance of ever making it into the richest fifth. On the other hand, those born at the top have a 1 in 3 chance of staying there no matter what they do.

Americans, like Jon Stewart, believe that British politicians are mild-mannered gentlemen not able to make a scene. That is untrue, while their politics are not as heated, there are people like a councillor for the libertarian UK Independence Party claimed that floods across the UK were because David Cameron is a bad Prime Minister. Nigel Farage (see pic) blames heavy traffic on immigration and once claimed that foreigners were bringing HIV to England. And there was one politician f*cking a pig, but lets leave him alone.

Generally, we tend to hold negative stereotypes against other countries. Where tourism is concerned, this strangely isn’t the case. Both Americans and Brits proudly consider themselves to be the world’s worst tourists. For Americans, the image of a loud, obnoxious guy in a baseball cap steadfastly refusing to understand or respect local cultures is enough to make most die of shame. For Brits, the thought of drunken idiots puking on the shores of Spain after cursing at the waiter in English is similarly depressing.