‘What’s something you wish you’d known earlier about living in the UK?’ – 21 people mystified by the strange ways of the British
British people have many ways of thinking about themselves as a nation, most of which are highly contradictory. Are we tolerant? Buttoned up? Friendly? Stiff-upper-lipped? Kind? Grumpy? Funny? Whether you see yourself in any of those, there’s one common way we appear to people who have come to our country from abroad: a bit weird. […] The post ‘What’s something you wish you’d known earlier about living in the UK?’ – 21 people mystified by the strange ways of the British appeared first on The Poke.
British people have many ways of thinking about themselves as a nation, most of which are highly contradictory. Are we tolerant? Buttoned up? Friendly? Stiff-upper-lipped? Kind? Grumpy? Funny? Whether you see yourself in any of those, there’s one common way we appear to people who have come to our country from abroad: a bit weird. […]
The post ‘What’s something you wish you’d known earlier about living in the UK?’ – 21 people mystified by the strange ways of the British appeared first on The Poke.
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