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Posts Tagged: Watching the English

The long good-bye – it's an English thing

According to social anthropologist Kate Fox, author of Watching the English – The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour, her fellow Brits are awkward, hasty and uneasy at introductions (as touched on in my previous post). But, she says, “partings, as if to compensate, are often tediously prolonged.” Ever been in on one of these? “Good-bye [...]

Only in England – a Native Daughter on inhabitants' idiocyncracies

It took me a few pages to twig to the author’s tone, but once I did, I found the book Watching the English, The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour to be a hoot. Anyone with a whiff of a British background will relate. Author Kate Fox begins by dissecting the English love of discussing The [...]