I have noticed curiously enough that English Colonials, especially in such particulars as speech and manners, follow their quondam sister colony, rather than the mother country.

And this, not only in Canada, where the phenomenon might be explained by climatic, geographic, and historic reasons, but also in such antipodean places as Australia and South Africa, which are so far away as to apparently have very little in common either with America or with each other.

Nevertheless, whatever the reason, the transplanted Englishman, whether in the arctics or the tropics, whether in the Northern or the Southern Hemisphere, seems to develop a type quite different from the original stock, yet always resembling his fellow emigrants.
The directness of Americans is seen not only in what they say but in the way they say it.

They come directly to the point, without much preface or introduction, much less is there any circumlocution or "beating about the bush".

When they come to see you they say their say and then take their departure, moreover they say it in the most terse, concise and unambiguous manner.