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WHEN IN BRITAIN …
Visitors to Britain are often surprised by the strange behaviour of
its inhabitants. The British like forming queues. They queue up when
waiting for a bus, theatre tickets, in shops … A well-known writer George
Mikes, a Hungarian, by birth joked: “An Englishman, even when he is
alone, forms an orderly queue of one”.
So one of the worst mistakes is to get on a bus without waiting your
turn. The British are very sensitive to such behaviour and they may get
really annoyed with queue jumpers – people who don’t wait their turn in
the queue.
Drivers in cars can become quite aggressive if they think you are
jumping the queue in a traffic jam. Newspapers often publish angry
articles about people who pay money to bypass a hospital waiting list in
order to get an operation more quickly.
The British, especially the English, are more reserved than the
people of many other countries. They don’t like to show their emotions.
They usually don’t easily get into conversation with strangers. They don’t
like personal questions (for example how much money they earn or about
their family life). They take more time to make friends. They would like
to know you better before they ask you home. So don’t be upset if your
English friends don’t invite you home. It doesn’t mean they don’t like
you.
If you are invited to a party it is considered polite to call and say if
you can or cannot come. Most parties are informal these days, so you
don’t have to worry about what to wear - anything from jeans to suits will
do.
If you are told to “help yourself” to something, it doesn’t mean that
your host is rude – he or she is showing that you are completely accepted
and just like “one of the family”.
It is considered rude - or bad manners – to smoke in someone’s
house without asking “Do you mind if I smoke?”
If you enjoyed the evening, call the hostess the next day, or write
you a short “thank you” letter. Perhaps it seems funny to you, but British
people say “thank you” “thank you” “thank you” all the time. They say
“thank you” even when they give money to a shop assistant.

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