I don't appreciate your comment. I left my own native tongue for a reason, and came back to it for one too. I'm not even boasting superiority. I don't give the slightest damn if you talk with metaphores, or whatever figure of speech there is, I don't submit to cultural ideals or snobbery. It's a point of view on how one likes to communicate. And I very very rarely encountered it even when talking, reading and watching almost entirely English sources for many months.

Also how can England be more influenced by countries as an Island ? the naval conquests, the commonwealth ? I don't know history much, but it seemed to me they kept a very cohesive identity except for the not so French/English feedback loop.