English culture
Tea and propriety
English culture encompasses the customs, traditions, arts, and social patterns associated with England.
It includes institutions like afternoon tea, the pub, queuing, and dry understatement.
English culture emphasizes restraint, politeness, and self-deprecation, valuing indirectness over confrontation: That's a very interesting idea may mean disagreement.
The culture has shaped literature, common law, parliamentary democracy, and sports like cricket and football, spreading globally through colonialism.
She found English culture reserved but welcoming once you got past the surface.
- stiff upper lipControlled emotional restraint
- folk balladsNarrative songs from oral tradition
- Shakespearean playsStage works by Stratford's bard
- Tudor housesMedieval English architectural style
- fish and chipsFried seafood with potatoes
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