My one British friend responded back right away saying something about how proud he was that the British were so progressive (I'm assuming he didn't know who Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. was, but thought his name sounded British?), so I texted him back about how he was actually American, but that it was great to want to claim a figure like that, to which he texted back:
...Well, that just goes to show you how open-minded you Americans are!! I wish I were one!
I found it interested that he used the adjective "open-minded". I've noticed that he uses that whenever he talks about people he respects, much like how George Eliot describes the characters she likes as "ardent".
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