\'You see, if Only They didn\'t Speak English in America, then we\'d treat it as a foreign country - and probably understand it a lot better\'As the BBC\'s North America Editor, Jon Sopel has experienced the United States from a perspective that most of us could Only dream of: he has flown aboard Air Force One, interviewed President Obama and was famously described as `a beauty\' by Donald Trump.
Through music, film, literature, TV and even through the food we eat and the clothes that we wear we all have a highly developed sense of what America is and through our shared, tangled history we claim a special relationship.
It is fearful, angry and impatient for change..
But America today feels about as alien a country as you could imagine. \'You see, if Only They didn\'t Speak English in America, then we\'d treat it as a foreign country - and probably understand it a lot better\'As the BBC\'s North America Editor, Jon Sopel has experienced the United States from a perspective that most of us could Only dream of: he has flown aboard Air Force One, interviewed President Obama and was famously described as `a beauty\' by Donald Trump.
Through music, film, literature, TV and even through the food we eat and the clothes that we wear we all have a highly developed sense of what America is and through our shared, tangled history we claim a special relationship
