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character

in Britain.

For instance, the Irish are supposed to be great talkers, the Scots have a reputation for being careful with money, the Welsh are renowned for their singing abilities, and the English are considered to be reserved.

have the same everyday habits as each other.

They are rather proud of being different. However, this does not mean that they like change. Their driving on the left-hand side of the road is a good example to this.

The British government has been trying for many years to get British people to use the same scales that are used nearly everywhere else in the world. But everybody in Britain still shops in pounds and ounces.

more reserved than the people of many other countries.

For example, it is not the convention to kiss when meeting a friend. Instead, friendship is symbolized by behaving as casually as possible.

The British are comparatively uninterested in clothes. They spend a lower proportion of their income on clothing than people in most European countries do. Many people buy second-hands clothes and are not at all embarrassed to admit this.

Duchess of Bedford, in the year 1840. The Duchess would become hungry around four o'clock in the afternoon. The Duchess asked a tray of tea, bread and butter some time earlier. This became a habit of hers and she began inviting friends to join her. This pause for tea became a fashionable social event.

In England today, the tradition of afternoon tea continues on in the home, in department stores and even in the small neighborhood cafes found in every town.

dog or a cat, or both. They have special dog shops selling food, clothes and other things for dogs. Millions of families have ’bird-tables’ in their gardens. Perhaps, this overall concern for animals is part of the British love for nature.

having a garden and using it on nice days.

Throughout Britain there are gardens great and small, formal and informal, private and public, that illustrate the British passion for creating green, growing spaces of their own.

neutral topic of conversation – it’s the perfect subject to talk about when you don’t want to have a serious conversation with someone.

You can talk about the weather to anyone, anywhere – with a stranger at a bus stop, with your friends on the phone or when you bump into your boss in the office kitchen.