Why would anybody WANT to be British? Nasty teeth. Bad food!
When I was in high school in the late nineties, the brit fad came back briefly. There were a lot of good bands and the fashion in london was very interesting in the late nineties. So there were posers, lol, there was one dumb kid that sometimes faked an accent. I bet he is somewhere pumping gas right now, still talking in that stupid fake accent.