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triamou
19 Jul 2018

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I want to know how is culture in UK, can you tell me?

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artywolve
19 Jul 2018

  • Country or region United Kingdom
It's a bit hard to explain your own culture, because normally you think that's just how the world is, but I'll try ^^ I think our society is very polite and considerate, a bit like Japan, but casual, in that we don't have any set formal tenses, and formal address is only really used in official situations, like school or at the bank, while you'd probably call your coworkers by name, depending on where you work. We're also quite passive aggressive because it isn't polite to say you don't like something XD As Britain is an island we're actually very multicultural, having been invaded by Romans and Celts and the Anglo-Saxons for who knows how many centuries before we went and invaded everywhere else to become an empire, so we're Gaelic, Scandinavian, French, German, Italian and wherever else was in the Roman Empire probably - that's "tradionally" British, but aside from all the Caucasians there are plenty of families immigrated from the Middle East, and the Far East seems to make up about 30-40% of our university students I swear XD. The most common religions are Protestant and Catholic Christianity, and probably Islam, but I don't know that much, because although many people are religious, just as many, if not more, are not, and I'm one of them. I think the larger the city you're in, as in most countries, the more diverse the population becomes. The UK may be a First World country, but, though it may be on a lesser scale than elsewhere, even here we still have homeless people, who seem to have just about no rights, and a massive portion of the population who live on government subsidies and only get to eat because of local food banks. Our society is currently oppressed by austerity, but before that we were in a financial crisis, so it's hard to say what's right. Anyway, we're not all nearly as posh as the Americans make out ^^" you want to visit a pub or a football game, and see just how classy you think we are XD we are generally quite apologetic though, that is true - whatever it takes to smooth over the situation. Also we're very good at queueing. I didn't know this, but apparently queues are optional in other parts of the world 😂 anyway, you're unlikely to find anyone jumping the queue in Britain, but if you do, no one will say anything, there will just be a lot of dirty looks and muttering. Not really sure what to add, did you have something specific in mind? ^^

It's a bit hard to explain your own culture, because normally you think that's just how the world is, but I'll try ^^
I think our society is very polite and considerate, a bit like Japan, but casual, in that we don't have any set formal tenses, and formal address is only really used in official situations, like school or at the bank, while you'd probably call your coworkers by name, depending on where you work. We're also quite passive aggressive because it isn't polite to say you don't like something XD

As Britain is an island we're actually very multicultural, having been invaded by Romans and Celts and the Anglo-Saxons for who knows how many centuries before we went and invaded everywhere else to become an empire, so we're Gaelic, Scandinavian, French, German, Italian and wherever else was in the Roman Empire probably - that's "tradionally" British, but aside from all the Caucasians there are plenty of families immigrated from the Middle East, and the Far East seems to make up about 30-40% of our university students I swear XD.
The most common religions are Protestant and Catholic Christianity, and probably Islam, but I don't know that much, because although many people are religious, just as many, if not more, are not, and I'm one of them. I think the larger the city you're in, as in most countries, the more diverse the population becomes.
The UK may be a First World country, but, though it may be on a lesser scale than elsewhere, even here we still have homeless people, who seem to have just about no rights, and a massive portion of the population who live on government subsidies and only get to eat because of local food banks. Our society is currently oppressed by austerity, but before that we were in a financial crisis, so it's hard to say what's right. Anyway, we're not all nearly as posh as the Americans make out ^^" you want to visit a pub or a football game, and see just how classy you think we are XD we are generally quite apologetic though, that is true - whatever it takes to smooth over the situation. Also we're very good at queueing. I didn't know this, but apparently queues are optional in other parts of the world 😂 anyway, you're unlikely to find anyone jumping the queue in Britain, but if you do, no one will say anything, there will just be a lot of dirty looks and muttering.

Not really sure what to add, did you have something specific in mind? ^^

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chetankesar
20 Jul 2018

  • Country or region India

what is the meaning of XD?

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artywolve
20 Jul 2018

  • Country or region United Kingdom

Oh, it's just an emoticon, like a laughing face (😂)

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