# Watching the English

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- Book: [Watching the English](https://www.bookquiver.com/kate-fox/watching-the-english) ([Watching the English.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/kate-fox/watching-the-english.md))
- Authors: [Kate Fox](https://www.bookquiver.com/kate-fox)
- Publisher: hodder_stoughton
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-18-4894-050-5
- Published: 2005-04-11
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

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. The rules of weather-speak. The ironic-gnome rule. The reflex apology rule. The paranoid-pantomime rule. Class indicators and class anxiety tests. The money-talk taboo and many more ... 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.