by Kate Fox
Good insights buried in lots of repetition and stating the obi
It gets repetitive (the construction is a killer, and Ms. Fox seems to have had her conclusions firmly in mind as she started writing, and EVERYTHING seems to support her theses), but overall, it is an interesting read, a must-read for any anglophile. I recommend it to all of my students.
Regarding American "histrionics" about weather - the English transplants I knew in Texas were always freaking out about the major weather events like hurricanes, tornados, flash floods, droughts, hailstorms, violent winds... Like they were completely stunned. No stiff upper lip at all. I suppose it...
Watching the English walks the line between popular science and a more academic text, and often falls on the wrong side of that line. The sheer amount of information collected from direct observation is incredibly insightful, but reading it all at once is a bit difficult. I had to take a break about...
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 ...
What have I learned? England runs on alcohol. When preformed by men all forms of social behaviour, like speech and clothing, are gay. Being middle class, and worse yet middle-middle class, is inescapably pathetic in every respect. People really do hang out in pubs unironically and 'upper class poor'...
I wish I could tap into the wealth of information in this book and load it into my brain. I love it. Lots of things I never knew but which now explains a LOT!
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