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'She has not only compiled a comprehensive list of English qualities, she has examined them in depth and wondered how we came to acquire them. Her book is a delightful read.' -- The Sunday Times 'I loved the section on mobile-phone etiquette. Shrewd ... I liked the chapter on English humour. This is an entertaining, clever book. Do read it and then pass it on.' -- Daily Telegraph 'Amusing ... entertaining.' -- The Times 'Watching the English ... will make you laugh out loud ("Oh God. I do that!") and cringe simultaneously ("Oh God. I do that as well."). This is a hilarious book which just shows us for what we are ... beautifully-observed. It is a wonderful read for both the English and those who look at us and wonder why we do what we do. Now they'll know.' -- Birmingham Post 'Fascinating reading.' -- Oxford Times 'An absolutely brilliant examination of English culture and how foreigners take as complete mystery the things we take for granted.' -- Jennifer Saunders, The Times 'If you like this kind of anthropology (and I do) there is a wealth of it to enjoy in this book. Her observations are acute...fortunately she doesn't write like an anthropologist but like an English woman -with amusement, not solemnity, able to laugh at herself as well as us.' -- Daily Mail
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In WATCHING THE ENGLISH anthropologist Kate Fox takes a revealing look at the quirks, habits and foibles of the English people. She puts the English national character under her anthropological microscope, and finds a strange and fascinating culture, governed by complex sets of unspoken rules and byzantine codes of behaviour. Her minute observation of the way we talk, dress, eat, drink, work, play, shop, drive, flirt, fight, queue - and moan about it all - exposes the hidden rules that we all unconsciously obey.
The rules of weather-speak. The Importance of Not Being Earnest rule. The ironic-gnome rule. The reflex apology rule. The paranoid-pantomime rule. Class indicators and class anxiety tests. The money-talk taboo. Humour rules. Pub etiquette. Table manners. The rules of bogside reading. The dangers of excessive moderation. The eccentric-sheep rule. The English 'social dis-ease'.
Through a mixture of anthropological analysis and her own unorthodox experiments (using herself as a reluctant guinea-pig), Kate Fox discovers what these unwritten behaviour codes tell us about Englishness. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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186 von 189 Kunden fanden die folgende Rezension hilfreich
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I started this book 3 days after returning from my first trip to America. Whilst in America I became aware of the huge cultural difference between the friendly people of the USA and traditional Brits amongst whom I've lived almost my whole life - I found much of American behaviour inexplicable and rather rude and personal towards someone they didn't know. I breathed a sigh of relief when returning to England, back amongst normal people who aren't continually nosy and telling you what they think about politics, religion and anything else the whole time.
I wish I'd read this book before I went. Not that I wouldn't have found a lot of American behaviour strange after reading it (I would still have done) but I would have been more aware of my cultural disabilities and how weird I must seem to them.
That's the power of this book - you can dip into almost any page, read a paragraph and say "that's me!" Kate Fox has studied the English for 10 years with remarkable acuity and she is able to identify behaviours that, to us, are entirely normal but are actually just part of our collective odd English behaviour patterns. When a man I had just been introduced to in America said "So, tell me all about yourself" I was left gaping at him in horror; `Watching The English' describes how people in the UK never share personal information unless they know someone particularly well - and in fact most people don't even introduce themselves to start with - my horror was expected and justified as I had never before been called upon to `blow my own trumpet' and it is completely counter to British reserve and our self-effacing nature. Her comments on ignoring other passengers on train journeys, on our national obsession with pets, on queuing, mobile phone use, class distinctions, dislike of fuss and bother and so many other areas rang completely true.
What I particularly liked about the book (and that I am English would of course confirm this) was that she wrote with a lot of humour and throw-away one-liners, she wasn't hugely pro-English or anti-English, she wasn't anti-American (despite them being so ODD!) and was able to illustrate her comments through the vast amount of research that she has done, including interviewing English people and foreigners and carrying out experiments herself (such as bumping into people in the street and seeing if they say `sorry' - the English generally do).
It's a surprisingly long book and not something you'd sit and read in one go. In fact I think it works best as something you dip into and that's how I've read it over a few days - opening it at random, reading a few pages, then flicking on. It's all subdivided into different headings and subheadings and doesn't really need to be read linearly to be understood. I found myself reading out vast tranches of it to anyone in earshot as it was so amusing and accurate. I read the introduction last of all, having read many comments by Amazon reviews that it was rather hard going - I found the introduction fine, but perhaps that was because by then I had enjoyed the book and found that I very much appreciated the author, her self-deprecating humour and her willingness to share her foibles and those of her family.
This book would make an ideal present for any English people out there who want to laugh at themselves (that's all of us), for anyone about to travel to a different culture (to avoid misunderstandings through others' behaviour) and particularly for those living in other countries who want to visit us without putting their foot in it at every conceivable opportunity.
I wish I'd read this book before I went. Not that I wouldn't have found a lot of American behaviour strange after reading it (I would still have done) but I would have been more aware of my cultural disabilities and how weird I must seem to them.
That's the power of this book - you can dip into almost any page, read a paragraph and say "that's me!" Kate Fox has studied the English for 10 years with remarkable acuity and she is able to identify behaviours that, to us, are entirely normal but are actually just part of our collective odd English behaviour patterns. When a man I had just been introduced to in America said "So, tell me all about yourself" I was left gaping at him in horror; `Watching The English' describes how people in the UK never share personal information unless they know someone particularly well - and in fact most people don't even introduce themselves to start with - my horror was expected and justified as I had never before been called upon to `blow my own trumpet' and it is completely counter to British reserve and our self-effacing nature. Her comments on ignoring other passengers on train journeys, on our national obsession with pets, on queuing, mobile phone use, class distinctions, dislike of fuss and bother and so many other areas rang completely true.
What I particularly liked about the book (and that I am English would of course confirm this) was that she wrote with a lot of humour and throw-away one-liners, she wasn't hugely pro-English or anti-English, she wasn't anti-American (despite them being so ODD!) and was able to illustrate her comments through the vast amount of research that she has done, including interviewing English people and foreigners and carrying out experiments herself (such as bumping into people in the street and seeing if they say `sorry' - the English generally do).
It's a surprisingly long book and not something you'd sit and read in one go. In fact I think it works best as something you dip into and that's how I've read it over a few days - opening it at random, reading a few pages, then flicking on. It's all subdivided into different headings and subheadings and doesn't really need to be read linearly to be understood. I found myself reading out vast tranches of it to anyone in earshot as it was so amusing and accurate. I read the introduction last of all, having read many comments by Amazon reviews that it was rather hard going - I found the introduction fine, but perhaps that was because by then I had enjoyed the book and found that I very much appreciated the author, her self-deprecating humour and her willingness to share her foibles and those of her family.
This book would make an ideal present for any English people out there who want to laugh at themselves (that's all of us), for anyone about to travel to a different culture (to avoid misunderstandings through others' behaviour) and particularly for those living in other countries who want to visit us without putting their foot in it at every conceivable opportunity.
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I've been teaching English at German universities (including Britische Landeskunde) for nearly ten years and I've never read anything like this brilliant book before! Not only is it FULL of brilliant observations on the crazy things we English people (I would have included the Scots, Irish, etc. cos I've lived in Scotland and they act the same way, believe me! but Kate chickened out of that one), it is also very, very funny! I couldn't stop laughing at the bits about the talking about the weather and cups of tea. It is not only funny about the English in general, it is also funny about Kate Fox, which is an extraordinary achievement. The book is fairly academic though - lots of sociological and anthropological terms and really a kind of toned-down doctoral thesis. Nevertheless, I would recommend it (and I will!) to students, interested lay-people (whatever they are) and teachers alike. It's the best Landeskunde book on English/British Landeskunde I have ever read (and I've read a few).
77 von 81 Kunden fanden die folgende Rezension hilfreich
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Wer Großbritannien kennt, öfter dort war, immer noch gerne hingeht und bereits das britische Benehmen "geschnuppert" hat, wird dieses Buch höchst amüsant finden, denn Vieles kommt einem äußerst bekannt vor. Für Neulinge in Sachen Vereinigtes Königreich ist das Werk von Kate Fox jederzeit zu empfehlen, da die Autorin mit viel humorvoller Selbstkritik ihre Landsleute und deren Verhalten mit allen Spleens und Ticks beschreibt. Kate Fox selbst ist der bekannte englische Humor inne, so geraten ihre Beschreibungen niemals langweilig. Es ist ein Buch zum Tränen lachen, jedoch ohne Boshaftigkeit im Nacken. Was die Autorin beschreibt, beruht ausschließlich auf Tatsachen. Wer sich manchmal über die eine oder andere Reaktion eines englischen Freundes oder Geschäftspartners wundert, findet in diesem Buch Antworten auf alle Fragen. "Watching the English" ist unbedingt empfehlenswert!
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typisch englisch!
Dieses Buch ist einfach phantastisch und typisch englisch - wo sonst kann man seriöse Forschungsergebnisse so gut aufbereitet und witzig dargestellt lesen? Lesen Sie weiter...
Vor 5 Monaten von Lesefan veröffentlicht
Essential Information
A wealth of essential information for any foreigner on the island (for example, detailed instructions on how to correctly order a drink in an English pub). Lesen Sie weiter...
Vor 9 Monaten von J. Steinseifer veröffentlicht
very funny (but somewhat biased)
Very well written and very funny in a very English way. She belabours some points, though. Surprisingly - isn't boasting a taboo - those are only the positive ones to an extent... Lesen Sie weiter...
Vor 17 Monaten von buecheroeli veröffentlicht
'lets have coffee some time'
Als ich vor 5 Jahren nach London zog habe ich mir gleich zu Beginn dieses Buch gekauft in der Hoffnung, dass es mir hilft mich schneller einzuleben. Lesen Sie weiter...
Vor 21 Monaten von R. Wokoeck veröffentlicht
Ein wundervolles Buch
Wenn man als Reisender/Tourist schon mal in England war und dabei die Möglichkeit hatte mit Einheimischen in Kontakt zu kommen (was, nach Kate Fox, gar nicht so einfach ist! Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 23. November 2009 von Willi Wiesel
Typisch englisch
Dieses Buch ist keine leicht verdauliche Kost, aber zeigt doch sehr detailliert die englischen (auch liebenswerten) Eigenheiten auf.
Veröffentlicht am 14. September 2009 von M. Hirtel
Sehr wissenschaftlich...
'Watching the English' ist inhaltlich ein sehr gutes, informatives Buch. Allerdings hatte ich nicht mit einer wissenschaftlichen Abhandlung inkl. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 3. Juni 2009 von M.D.
Einfach nur Klasse für Freunde des Landes und der Leute!
Mit viel Selbstironie und einem guten Schuss britischem Humor beschreibt Kate Fox, Anthropologin und Tochter eines bekannten Anthropologen Verhaltensmuster ihrer Landleute und... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 15. Mai 2009 von E. Barz
wonderfully entertaining and amusing
Kate Fox manages perfectly to entertain the reader and at the same time give him/her an insight into the meaning of the term 'Englishness', which she does by analysing the 'hidden... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 28. Februar 2009 von Marlies Böhler
Identity crisis?
When I read a title containing the word English and purporting to be about the British I immediately decide not to buy it! Why can't people get it right? Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 19. August 2008 von faith1110
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