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i used to think that the uk had no cultural exports because it's the insular racism island whose total “british” cultural output consists of endless comedy series about absurd class dynamics, but now i live in scandinavia i discover they do have an export market, it's just tiny
i have no idea if people living in the uk know that there are europeans who know who hyacinth bucket is. but there are. you should not be flattered by this though
i don't think stuff like doctor who and sherlock really count as cultural exports in the way that i mean here, because those are in recent times an explicit attempt by the bbc to go global
on the other hand there's a ton of really great cultural stuff from the uk that, and i think this is important, you would forget originates from the uk. many important contributions to music came from people who happen to be from or in the uk. but do you think of them as british?
i guess the idea of “british culture" or “swedish culture” or “american culture” or “japanese culture” is inherently kinda fake and insular though, and i also have very very obvious bias on this