主题：英国人对下届开幕式的讨论 -- wydygo
Britain invented or codefied virtually all the world's biggest global sports: football; tennis; rugby; polo; cricket; golf; much of athletics, riding, rowing etc. It is or was the founder or a founding member or original player in virtually every international event, such as being one of the 14 original countries in the Olympics, such as starting the World Cup or Wimbledon.
25% of all the world's music is recorded in London - no other city has such a dynamic music culture that includes classical, choral, pop, rock, folk and jazz. Britain has both the Proms and X Factor - nowhere else can do that range. It's not an accident that Sara Brightman a crossover artiste turned up on the top of the world in Beijing - she sold 30m of tickets on her last US tour.
Britain is the world centre of news media. BBC news alone is bigger than all the US networks added together in terms of journalists, areas covered, quality of analysis and hours of news broadcast. The BBC has more staff in the Americas than CNN has on the planet. The British had the first newspapers and still read more newspapers than any other nationality in the world.
Britain is the world's second largest producer of movies and of television with the most successful franchise in either - Harry Potter and the 'Idol' shows. We complain about our TV but it is a world beater and a huge earner for the country. Currently virtually all the top non-drama entertainment shows in most of the world are UK originated, with the exception of Big Brother.
London is now the world's richest city and according to Forbes the #1 city for finance and trading. Business and money are part of our culture
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🙂That's all very nice 1 AllenKid 字630 2008-08-11 02:36:48