Watching the English Susan Martineau So far as possible

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Watching the English Susan Martineau So far as possibleIn "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 byzantine codes of behaviour. The rules of weather speak. The ironic gnome rule. The reflex apology rule. The paranoid pantomime rule. Class indicators and