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Apologizing after a bump

British Brits are a little instance I think it's just um yeah just a I guess a cultural politeness thing we sometimes can be overly polite someone could bump into me and I would...

Course: Inside British cultureSection: British social rulesSubtitles: en

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maybe

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British Brits are a little instance

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I think it's just yeah

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just a I guess a cultural politeness

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thing we sometimes can be overly polite

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someone could bump into me and I would

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apologize

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it's one of those things isn't it are

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you a sorry person oh all the time yeah

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I run around apologizing for things all

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the time that probably like was not

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really my fault

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um and yeah I probably wasn't actually

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sorry but anyway it just slips out makes

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you think now that didn't Elton John

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have that song

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um sorry seems to be the hardest word

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it's kind of like maybe not here it's

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yeah not at all it's a bit of a lie

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the easiest word depends if you're

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sincere or not

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I often find a bit strange that you say

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that um if you were to draw an escalator

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people would actually speak up do you

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think oh yeah no yeah definitely because

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I was Brits are known for being a little

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bit like passive aggressive yeah but you

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would actually verbally hear someone

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kind of yeah no yeah definitely shout

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out to you or I wouldn't say shout I

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wouldn't say you know they go all out

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and start you know

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you know having a proper shout out but

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without a doubt they'd say something

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passive like oh stand on the right or

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something like that or just stay in my

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way then something sarcastic along those

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lines but you enjoy queuing

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do you think it's a good cultural rule

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yes

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