Im not from an english speaking country and I think English is way easier than something like japanese.

Anyway, the differences in the language between US and UK are like the differences that happen in spanish between spain and every country in latin america, though the difference is bigger with spanish.

http://www.bobcongdon.net/blog/2004/10/etymology-of-world-series.html

Baseball is probably the most american-centric sport.

Please go ahead though, and support you claims with more details. I can very well tell you that as many Americans who think the world is centered around the United States, there are many others, such as myself, who realizes both the advantages and faults of the country. There are also many others, such as myself, who feel the United States is pretty much a mesh of cultures and really doesn't have on Nationalistic point of view. It may have started out as one, but the need for a larger population destroyed any chance of this happening. That is why many think of it as the "World" or "center of the world". Another reason is the share size. It may only be the third largest country(land mass) in the World, but it has the most widely distributed population out of the top 4. Canada has a small population from the start, Russia has huge amounts of unhabited land, and China is mostly centralled around cities. The United States of America has a sense of scope where there are so many regions and states, all of which have populations the size of most countries, that it is really hard to look past that for a much larger scope. I bet the British empire was the same way during its height. The same thing could be said for any largely distributed country or empire. You really can't look too much past the boundaries. All of this and we rarely get educated on any history other than our own and that of the Natives who lived here. There really isn't much emphasis of the  major European based societies that make up the majority of this "mixed" culture. So it is just hard to look pass it with so much  knowledge(and food ) to consume in our own nation, that much beyond it, and when we do, it ends up being in the form of stereotypes and generalizations.

Of course you would. English and Spanish share a common ancestor probably less than 6,000 years ago. English also borrows half of its vocabulary from latin, the language Spanish used to be a dialect of. Japanese is a language isolate. Pretty much all the languages it is related to have been long since dead. The closest living relative to Japanese is probably some types of Korean, and it is believed they split about 40,000 years ago(Indo-european languages are only about 10,000 years old for reference.) Then the closest relatives to those two are probably Turkish and Finnish. English has more in common with Russian than Japanese has with Korean. This is just to give you an idea of scope btw. So yeah, english would be an easier language to learn from the experience of a Spanish speaker. Actually as an only English speaker, I can "guess" the words of Spanish and French due to latin roots alone. That is something I can't do in Japanese unless they are a borrowed word in the last 50 years.  Now to a non-indo european speaker they may find English quite hard and vice versa. 

Spanish is solely latin based though. English isn't

Ugh, my post got deleted.  

I once got into an argument with an American exchange girl over the spelling of various english words.

I was arguing that the UK and Australia employ English as it always has been and was designed. She looked at me and said "There's 500 million English speakers in the world and 300 million of them are from the USA, get your own fucking language."

I'd been trying very hard to sleep with her. Needless to say I decided to sleep with another of them instead.

XD! She does have a point in a majority rules sorta way...

Except that american english is the offshoot. So she really doesn't have much of a point.

So the fact that their are 1.186billion English speakers* in the world was not something she was aware of?

(*admittedly most of which are as a second language) 

I assumed she meant primary language lol.