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Watching the English
Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour | Kate Fox
In "Watching The English" anthropologist Kate Fox takes a revealing look at the quirks, habits and foibles of the English people. She puts the English national character under her anthropological microscope, and finds a strange and fascinating culture, governed by complex sets of unspoken rules and byzantine codes of behaviour. The rules of weather-speak. The ironic-gnome rule. The reflex apology rule. The paranoid-pantomime rule. Class indicators and class anxiety tests. The money-talk taboo and many more ...Through a mixture of anthropological analysis and her own unorthodox experiments (using herself as a reluctant guinea-pig), Kate Fox discovers what these unwritten behaviour codes tell us about Englishness.
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julesG
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Sometimes I like to think that all #PeopleAreStrange. Not just the English, I mean. My tribe, the Germans, have strange habits, too. Not to mention all the lovely nerds and geeks. 😁

#Rocktober @Cinfhen @BarbaraBB

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julesG
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Although the author is British, she takes the #OutsidersPerspective to watch her fellow country men/women.
#BeastsGiveawayChallenge @ruthemmielang

tpixie Interesting! 7y
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eraderneely
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A room with a view,
Watching the English,
the things they carried.

#readathon spine poetry

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KelsieEngen
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Grooming-talk starts with greeting-talk. Weather-speak is needed in this context partly because greetings and introductions are such an awkward business for the English. 🤔😂

MrBook Welcome to @Litsy ! We hope you enjoy your stay, I think you'll like it here 😎👍🏻. 8y
MicLim This book is funny, but it's not drawing me in and I really want to like it. 8y
morag-at-large I agree MicLim. I wanted to enjoy this more than I did. The bit about the university anarchy club organizing the best parties did make me laugh out loud however. 😄 7y
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Dragon
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These poor book cover models look miserable and wet. #somethingforsept #uglycover on my tbr list

LeeRHarry I borrowed this off a Spanish guy that I was working with at the time and he and I both found some parts really quite amusing! 😊 8y
BookishFeminist I'm wondering how that newspaper isn't completely soggy by now 😂 8y
LeahBergen @BookishFeminist I'm wondering if these two are dating. 8y
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BookishFeminist @LeahBergen Hm, now there's a thought. I'm not sure I'd date someone wearing those bell bottoms though 😂👖 8y
Dragon There's lots to wonder about @BookishFeminist and @LeahBergen with this #uglycover 8y
Dragon Thanks @LeeRHarry I'll have to flip through it 8y
Gezemice I am wondering how could they be British without drinking tea. 🤔 8y
Dragon Hmmmm @Gezemice interesting point 😀 8y
SusanInTiburon I liked that book! 8y
Martyn_J_Pass Blatant racism!!!!!!! 8y
Martyn_J_Pass I need to read this book lol!!! 8y
Dragon Cheers @The_Bear , I still haven't read it yet 8y
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BookishClaire

When I was about seven, an American friend of my parents' bent down, tweaked my cheek, and asked, "So, what do you think of America, then?" I gave the matter due frowning consideration for a moment or two before replying, "Well, I think it will probably be all right when it's finished."

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