Expressing opinions freely

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uh

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lack of reserve i suppose how does that

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that contrast with with how you see

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people in our country americans are more

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um

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they give their opinion more freely i

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think

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and that's not necessarily a bad

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a bad thing i think we probably could

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learn a bit more from that we're

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sometimes too reticent too shy

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to say what we think

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um too close whereas americans are much

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more open you can sort of tell what

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they're thinking and feeling right

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is there anything that you would take

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from their culture or from their sort of

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personality traits that would improve

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britain yes they seem to be very

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quite happy to what we call blow your

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own trumpets

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whereas we always downplay anything

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about ourselves and i think that's good

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i think it must be good for children to

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have confidence in themselves yeah yeah

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you can toot your own horn

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definitely yeah yeah i know you mean

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we're quite it it's you have to be

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self-deprecating

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yes exactly yes

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that positivity i think generally i

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think would would go down pretty well i

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think is it

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we're a bit gone

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self-deprecating or something

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self-deprecation is fine yeah and i

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think that's quite a nice trait but i

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think sometimes it can go a bit far and

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i think a lot of