RUPERT EVERETT has launched an attack on America

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Actor Rupert Everett has described Americans as 'whiny victims' whose entire language is taken from Friends and Sex And The City.

And he said we live in a repressed Victorian-style culture, obsessed with the 'authority of what Posh is wearing'.

The presenter of The Victorian Sex Explorer said problems stem from people not daring to stand up and say anything.

In an interview with the Radio Times, he explained the appeal of Sir Richard Francis Burton, a 19th-century explorer and a subject of Channel 4's Victorian Passions season.

'We're such a world of copycats,' Everett told the magazine.

'We live in our own kind of Victorian culture: repressed, obsessed with authority - even if it's just the 'authority' of what Posh is wearing.

'All the problems we have now, they're all really about people not daring to stand up and say anything.'

Moving away from British society, Everett spoke about the United States.

'I'm totally off the States now,' he told the magazine. 'The reaction to 9/11 and then George Bush - really, they've got very blobby as a nation.

'Now they (the Americans) are whiny victims whose language is entirely taken from two TV s"