Watching the English : the hidden rules of English behaviour

摘要: In WATCHING THE ENGLISH anthropologist Kate Fox takes a revealing look at the quirks, habits and foibles of English people. She puts national character under her anthropological microscope, finds strange fascinating culture, governed by complex sets unspoken rules byzantine codes behaviour. The weather-speak. ironic-gnome rule. reflex apology paranoid-pantomime Class indicators class anxiety tests. money-talk taboo many more ...Through mixture analysis own unorthodox experiments (using herself as reluctant guinea-pig), discovers what these unwritten behaviour tell us about Englishness.