The thread topic is actually intriguing. It seems evident that both the US and England, for instance, have a love-hate relationship.

For instance, Americans often consider English accents (at least the Oxbridge accent) as evidence of high culture, to which a lot of us aspire. But on the other hand, we're quite happy when the villain in the show is a rich haughty Englishman, who of course gets his comeuppance in the end.   I think the degree to which an American resents a well-spoken Englishman depends to a large extent on his own self-confidence--if he feels himself to be an educated person, and therefore anybody's equal, he is probably free of that sort of visceral unthinking dislike.

Similarly, I believe, many English really like American blues and/or country music, but are dismayed, as are many Americans, by the way the McDonald's cheap throwaway culture is infesting the globe--as well as the way our current leadership approximates a bull in a china shop.