Britain and British Culture

anything about britain i see anywhere it's never actually britain.
just england.... posh parts of it

Do we really have a culture?
Our "culture" now it to copy other people it seems like. It's such a shame we have all the history yet do not embrace it.
Happy Saint George's day everybody.

Bells.:

I love the accents more than anything else :XD And this really clandestine sexiness of British men... But enough about that.

Like Australians, New Zealanders see Britain as the motherland also. We use a lot of the same words as British people, like "mate" and... other stuff. :XD

I really hope to visit Britain some day.

They're the mothership. 8) British Empire ftw. I love the humour more than anything. God, Black Books, Father Ted, Blackadder ffs. Fawlty Towers!
I do love my Coro. :tehe:
Oh, and the cuisine. Fish & chips. :XD Bacon, eggs, sausages, toast. Nom. :yah
I hope I visit England some day too. Except my aunty who lives over there, but comes back and forth all the time, says that when you walk down the street like in London or something, people don't even look at you. :shifty Or smile or even acknowledge you..

^ That's a British trademark.

I'd find it creepy if people acknowledged me in the street.

People in London are rude, walk down Oxford street and people will knock in to you, you could fall over and no one would bat an eyelid.

lochnessmonster:

People in London are rude, walk down Oxford street and people will knock in to you, you could fall over and no one would bat an eyelid.

omgno:
My English teacher keeps going on and on about how Englishmen are super-polite and they'll say "sorry" even if they only slightly push you away on the street.

^ That would be a lie.

We are polite indoors and other places. But on a street? WE NEED TO GET FROM A TO B.
It's Terminator style, man.

We're quite brusque when it comes to us getting where we need to be. :tehe:

It's the same in shops: when I was in American the salespeople were like " OHAI, HEY, HOW'RE YOU?! CAN I HELP YOU WITH ANYTHING? "
and my Grandad was like "You can fuck off. " [not to their faces].

I mean, we're not horribly impolite but we generally aren't really in your face either.

TGI Fridays restaurants are a whole new world to us. :lmfao

lochnessmonster:

Do we really have a culture?
Our "culture" now it to copy other people it seems like. It's such a shame we have all the history yet do not embrace it.

'course we do.
Although it is fair to say that curries are probably as much as a national dish as a Sunday Roast. I don't necessarily think being influenced by other cultures within Britain is a bad thing. I think it just makes ours richer and more diverse.

Yorkshire Puddings :D If you're not in a big city, we're generally quite polite. And conversations about the weather are so British.

^ It's the British ice-breaker.

^Conversations about weather are very typical for Sweden as well. :XD
I suppose it has to do with having four seasons and very varying weather.

If I’m going to be stereotypical here I think of British culture as a love of tea,
a attitude that they’re slightly more sophisticated than the rest of the world
and also I think football. Oh, and their culture, though London is a melting-pot
where lots of different culture meats as far as I understand it, is very set
and British people are very unwilling to changer their ways. One example
I’m thinking off is how there seem to be a fair amount of British people
who think that American spelling is nothing but lazy. The word I’m looking
for is conservative. British culture is very conservative. Oh, and, though I
don’t really know why, I picture a lot of the population reading the newspaper
everyday and just walking around with their noses in it all morning.
Maybe that had something to do with the newsstands I saw when I was in London. xD
Granted, I’m sure that my idea of Britain and its culture is stereotypical and I
suppose this is generally how British culture is perceived in this country.
And, for the record, when we think “British culture” here we do not
include Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland. (I mean; notice how I keep
saying "British" though I actually mean "English" XD “British culture” to me is
really very limited to “English culture” and mainly “London culture” I suppose. x])
Because I don’t think that we overall have even a general idea what to
say about their culture. I suppose kilts will be mention when you talk about Scotland.
And that they hold on to their money. Ireland I guess makes one think of whiskey.
And of read hair. xD And as for Wales nothing really comes to mind. x]

What's in a name?:

^Conversations about weather are very typical for Sweden as well. :XD
I suppose it has to do with having four seasons and very varying weather.

If I’m going to be stereotypical here I think of British culture as a love of tea,
a attitude that they’re slightly more sophisticated than the rest of the world
and also I think football. Oh, and their culture, though London is a melting-pot
where lots of different culture meats as far as I understand it, is very set
and British people are very unwilling to changer their ways. One example
I’m thinking off is how there seem to be a fair amount of British people
who think that American spelling is nothing but lazy. The word I’m looking
for is conservative. British culture is very conservative. Oh, and, though I
don’t really know why, I picture a lot of the population reading the newspaper
everyday and just walking around with their noses in it all morning.
Maybe that had something to do with the newsstands I saw when I was in London. xD
Granted, I’m sure that my idea of Britain and its culture is stereotypical and I
suppose this is generally how British culture is perceived in this country.
And, for the record, when we think “British culture” here we do not
include Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland. (I mean; notice how I keep
saying "British" though I actually mean "English" XD “British culture” to me is
really very limited to “English culture” and mainly “London culture” I suppose. x])
Because I don’t think that we overall have even a general idea what to
say about their culture. I suppose kilts will be mention when you talk about Scotland.
And that they hold on to their money. Ireland I guess makes one think of whiskey.
And of read hair. xD And as for Wales nothing really comes to mind. x]

I disagree with the really conservative thing. I think we're a lot more liberal than the vast majority of America, but maybe more conservative than the rest of Northern Europe. I personally think British people have more fun than Americans XD
For example when I went to California, I was invited to a college party by an older sister of a friend who lives there and I was expecting it to be really wild but it was just a bunch of people sat around with plastic cups full of vile beer. The only exciting thing that happened was a couple of people got really drunk, stripped and threw up. It was dull compared my nights out.

Oh and Wales, rugby and sheep XD

^And leeks, mining, singing and recently, the station for British geekism.

Britain is liberal in some senses but conservative in others.

saint gut-free.:

We're quite brusque when it comes to us getting where we need to be. :tehe:

It's the same in shops: when I was in American the salespeople were like " OHAI, HEY, HOW'RE YOU?! CAN I HELP YOU WITH ANYTHING? "
and my Grandad was like "You can fuck off. " [not to their faces].

I mean, we're not horribly impolite but we generally aren't really in your face either.

TGI Fridays restaurants are a whole new world to us. :lmfao

I remember when I went to America and the salespeople were like that! I was actually quite taken aback. :shock: :tehe:

The woman in the fish and chip shop down the front of Gourock hands you the food and sticks her hand out for money. I'm always like 'cause she's so scary. Oh, and she has a moustache :lmfao

I don't think British people are that impolite :shifty

The Master.:

^ That would be a lie.

We are polite indoors and other places. But on a street? WE NEED TO GET FROM A TO B.
It's Terminator style, man.

I can't even describe how accurate that is :tehe:

Torden.:

I remember when I went to America and the salespeople were like that! I was actually quite taken aback. :shock: :tehe:

The woman in the fish and chip shop down the front of Gourock hands you the food and sticks her hand out for money. I'm always like 'cause she's so scary. Oh, and she has a moustache :lmfao

I don't think British people are that impolite :shifty

:lmfao She sounds lovely.

I know, me either. That's what I said. :tehe:

I like being British
Means I can associate myself to Doctor Who, Harry potter, Narnia, drinking tea, various other books, drinking tea and queuing

I got mega pissed in America because this lady didn't know how to queue for the toilet :shifty

Queen B.:

I disagree with the really conservative thing. I think we're a lot more liberal than the vast majority of America, but maybe more conservative than the rest of Northern Europe. I personally think British people have more fun than Americans XD
For example when I went to California, I was invited to a college party by an older sister of a friend who lives there and I was expecting it to be really wild but it was just a bunch of people sat around with plastic cups full of vile beer. The only exciting thing that happened was a couple of people got really drunk, stripped and threw up. It was dull compared my nights out.

Oh and Wales, rugby and sheep XD

I do not necessarily believe in it either but it's what I'd think off if someone say"British culture." :XD
But yeah, in some ways it seems to me as if though you are a bit more conservative than the rest of Northern Europe.
But of course that's just something I feel more than anything I have any real proof for. x]
And what's conservative and what's not is rather relative too. Sweden is generally
said to be a very liberated, non-conservative country. And if it actually is,
which I don't know for real, then the reason we here call Britain conservative
might only be because of how things are here in comparison.
Which means that Britain may very well be one of the less conservative countries.
Only it isn't to Swedish people because of how Sweden is. If that makes any sense. x]
Well, you have to remember that you were only to one party. A college party.
That isn't likely comparable to a night out with your friends at places you know and like. =]
(And of course I'm assuming here that that's what you meant by "your night out" x] )

But sheep makes me think of New Zealand. :XD

The Great British pastime: queing and moaning.

It's the lack of sunshine.

Oh, I think I can find a surmisation of British culture by Bill Bailey that's awesome.



Ignore the donkeys are aliens bit. :XD