Mia Freedman

You see them once a year.

It's not...

The idea in the US is that once you leave the parental unit and go out in the world, you're kind of done with that.

Now you have to make yourself.

It's up to you now.

And some stats say that up to 25% of Americans are estranged from at least one family member.

I doubt those stats would be the same in the UK, right, Holly?

Yeah, and you're right that these are generalizations, but just to cherry pick like two different sort of key cultural figures and what they say about each of the cultures.

Think about Bridget Jones and Carrie Bradshaw.

These are two fictional inventions that came about at the same time in the 1990s, late 1990s.

obviously then became huge hits for their respective creators.

But Carrie Bradshaw, we know nothing about her nuclear family, absolutely nothing.

She is this self-made woman who, as far as we're concerned, she arrived in New York and then just that's when her life began.

Bridget Jones, the very first Bridget Jones movie, starts with her coming home for Christmas and it's not a – there is tension but it's not a dramatic tension.

It's a comedic tension, like it's an ugly sweater party, everyone's having a good time.

It's more like, oh, mum.

She's eye-rolling.

She's not triggering.

So if you just look at those two characters and what they represent about the culture, it's something very different and this idea that in the U.S.,

You have to make yourself.