Remember though - there's a flipside to all three points you made;
1) They also have a positive attitude towards a lot of undesirable stuff. Like Gun ownership.
2) They have to sanitise and Americanise stuff. Examples? I could say Braveheart / Robin Hood prince of tw@ts, but I actually prefer High Fidelity as an example. Is there a book more rooted in the UK (and particularly in a little corner of North London) than that book. So who ends up in it? Joh Cusack and Jack Black (who, to be fair, was pretty good). And they set it in Chicago for gods sake. I mean, WHY? They kept pretty much the exact same plot, and Nick Hornby is far more widely known over here than over there. Just chuck Colin Firth / Simon Pegg and, I dunno, Anna Friel / Kiera Knightley in it and film on the Holloway Road and it would be a cool movie.
3) Cheap Petrol means fume spewing 4X4s and 'driving season'. No-one over there owns anything smaller than a pickup as soon as you get 100 miles from either coast nowadays. If someone drove a G-Wiz through the streets of Birmingham or Albequerque they'd be burned at the stake. Then shot (legally, with a well maintained high caliber rifle of course).