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“The socially correct way of pouring tea is to put the milk in after the tea. Social correctness has traditionally had nothing whatever to do with reason, logic, or physics. In fact, in England it is generally considered socially incorrect to know stuff or think about things. It's worth bearing this in mind when visiting.”
Douglas Adams
Social Norms
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Tea
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England
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Humor
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Knowledge
2.
“There is a feeling which persists in England that making a sandwich interesting, attractive, or in any way pleasant to eat is something sinful that only foreigners do.”
Douglas Adams
Food
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Cultural Attitudes
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England
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Humor
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Xenophobia
3.
“You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people.”
W.H. Auden
Cultural Differences
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Secrets
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Privacy
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America
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England
4.
“Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live.”
John Milton
England
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National Pride
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Leadership
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Civilization
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Moral Guidance
5.
“England always seems to me like a man swimming with his clothes on his head.”
Henry James
Strange Metaphor
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Observation
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Identity
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England
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Reflection
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Imagery
6.
“Milton! thou should’st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee: she is a fen Of stagnant waters.”
William Wordsworth
Milton
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England
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Stagnant Waters
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Need
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History
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Poet
7.
“God help England if she had no Scots to think for her.”
George Bernard Shaw
England Scots
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National Dependency
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England
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Scots
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Dependency
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National
8.
“It was the year of Our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five. Spiritual revelations were conceded to England at that favoured period, as at this. Mrs. Southcott.”
Charles Dickens
History
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Spirituality
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Revelation
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England
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Time
9.
“In England, there was scarcely an amount of order and protection to justify much national boasting.”
Charles Dickens
England
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Order
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Protection
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Society
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Criticism
10.
“A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.”
George Orwell
Society
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Family
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Control
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England
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Critique
11.
“England is the most class-ridden country under the sun. It is a land of snobbery and privilege, ruled largely by the old and silly.”
George Orwell
England
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Class
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Privilege
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Society
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Snobbery
12.
“England will still be England, an everlasting animal, stretching into the future and the past and like all living things having the power to change out of all recognition and yet remain the same.”
George Orwell
England
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Tradition
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Change
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Identity
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Resilience
13.
“There are bitter weeds in England.”
Winston Churchill
England
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Patriotism
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Conflict
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Symbolism
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Criticism
14.
“The English never draw a line without blurring it.”
Winston Churchill
England
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Precision
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Culture
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Ambiguity
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Humor
15.
“There is a forgotten, nay almost forbidden word, which means more to me than any other. That word is England.”
Winston Churchill
Patriotism
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England
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Identity
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Emotion
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Heritage
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