{"id":1973,"date":"2009-09-16T19:49:46","date_gmt":"2009-09-16T19:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1973"},"modified":"2009-09-16T19:49:46","modified_gmt":"2009-09-16T19:49:46","slug":"watching-the-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/09\/16\/watching-the-english\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCHING THE ENGLISH"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In Watching the English<\/em><\/a> (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.<\/p>\n

Read extracts in google books here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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