A TYPICAL BRITISH
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                                 A typical British  

  Who is a typical British? How does he look like?

The British are different-the English, the Welsh, the Irish, the Scottish.                          Most British are Protestants ( Anglicans and Methodists).

The British are patriots, they put the flag on party hats, bags, socks and even wigs. The most famous traditional British dress is undoubtedly the Scottish kilt. Many people think that the Scottish men wear it every day. It is not true!

Just like no Russian woman   wears ‘’kokoshnik’’ every day.

So kilts are for special occasions such as weddings or dances. When you see a man in a kilt, he is probably not Scottish, he is probably an American tourist.

  The Scots, the Welsh, the Irish, the English are very proud of their national songs.When the English play football against Scotland or Wales, they sing

God save the Queen. The Scots sing Flower of Scotland,  the Welsh sing                         Land of my Fathers.  

‘Mac’ or  ‘Mc’ means that a person is from Scotland. ‘O’ means that a man is Irish. Sometimes as a joke , Scotsmen are called ‘Jock’ or ‘Jimmy’, Irishmen are called ‘Paddy’ or ‘Mick’ and Welshmen are called ‘Dai’ or ‘Taffy’.

But if you don’t know someone well, don’t call them by these  names!

  The Irish are supposed to be great talkers, the Scots have the reputation of being careful with money, they are different but they have a lot in common.

  The English are Anglo-Saxon in origin, the Welsh and the Irish ,the Scots are the Celts.

   Other countries have  ‘citizens ’, but in Britain people are legally called as ‘subjects’-subjects of Her Majesty the Queen. The criminals are sent to prison of ‘Her Majesty’.

   The British like to read newspapers. More daily papers are sold per person in the UK than in almost any other country. Sunday papers are so popular and some people spend all day reading them.

 The most popular topic for conversation is the weather. This is an ever-interesting ,even thrilling topic, and you must be good at discussing it.                        

 –Nasty day, isn’t it?                                                                                                                       -I remember exactly the same day in 1936.

-Yes, I remember too.

-Or was it in 1928?

-Yes, it was.

-Or in 1939?

-Yes, that’s right.

Or  -  Nice day, isn’t it?

 Answer without hesitation- Isn’t it lovely?

 Learn these words by heart and you will have the chance to be a witty man with  a sharp  intellect, keen observation and extremely pleasant manners.                         It is not polite to ask personal questions such as ‘How much do you get?’

And it is impolite to keep silence, so speak about the weather to ‘fill the gap’.

The British are considered to be polite. How do the British complain?

Some brave people do complain, but it sounds timid and apologetic.

‘Excuse me,I am  terribly sorry, um,but, er, this soup seems to be rather , well, not very hot- a bit cold, really.’

 The British are proud of their sense of humour. But French and Americans don’t understand their jokes.  

   The British like sport. We should be grateful to them for traditional sports such as golf, tennis, cricket, football, curling.

People in Britain have different hobbies, the most favourite are gardening, pets, sport. ‘All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.’

  It is not secret that British people love their pets and would do everything to make their life happy.

  Family life is very important for British. People prefer to live in a cottage house with a garden.

    The British aren’t interested in clothes. Many people buy second-hand clothes. They spend more money on clothes than people in other European countries.

   According to a survey conducted last year, Britain is a nation of tea-loving soap opera fans who value privacy, love their pets, grumble about the weather. 73% of people drink traditional tea, compared to 6% who prefer Earl Grey tea, 53% treat their pets as the members of the family, 39% think that the weather is the most annoying aspect of living in Britain.

  Good manners are very important in Great Britain, they are not easy to learn- ‘unwritten rules’. ‘When in Rome, do as the Romans do.’

   The typical English is cold, not very emotional, reserved, conservative, polite, shy (some foreigners think a little boring). A typical English likes tea, garden, cats and dogs. He has a sweet tooth. He  respects traditions .

An Englishman ,even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one.

Some people think the English are snobbish. I liked the words of German poet Novalis,’’Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.’’                              People are different everywhere-in Great Britain, in America. Everything we have spoken about is stereotype. The truth is out there…