In Watching the English (Hodder & Stoughton, 2005), Kate Fox, a social anthropologist examines English social stucture and explains away the perception of the English as “Cold” or “Unfriendly”. She covers our obsessions with privacy, understatement, humour, anti-boastfulness, excessive politeness and all the other motives and societal rules behind the way we act.

Read extracts in google books here.

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