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Saturday, August 29, 2009

Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour

Review
"A great gift for someone going to Britain or a British friend. The non-Brit may not believe what they read until they come back from their visit. Reading this book, they'll gain a new understanding for the British people." -- Hollywood Today, July 1, 2008

"The great thing about this book is you can open it to any chapter and it stands on its own. I found myself reading parts of the book out loud to people to get their opinions. Either they understood and laughed, or they thought I was crazy." -- Hollywood Today, July 1, 2008
Product Description
A bestseller in the UK, Watching the English is a biting, affectionate, insightful and often hilarious look English Society. Putting the English national character under her anthropological microscope, Fox finds a strange and fascinating culture, governed by complex sets of unspoken rules and bizarre codes of behavior. Through a mixture of anthropological analysis and her own unorthodox experiments-even using herself as a reluctant guinea-pig-Fox discovers what these unwritten codes tell us about Englishness.