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Tea, beer and politeness

I don't like tea. Maybe that makes me unusual. Do we drink as much beer as you were told? Yeah, I think so. Probably. All English people are polite. Um, what can I just say? All...

Course: Inside British cultureSection: English stereotypes and cultureSubtitles: en

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I don't like tea. Maybe that makes me

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unusual. Do we drink as much beer as you

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were told? Yeah, I think so. Probably.

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All English people are polite.

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Um, what can I just say? All English

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people have bad teeth.

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How do you have your tea? Personally, I

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have mine just with milk. Quite strong.

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Who do you speak to the weather about?

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Oh, anyone. That's usually the first

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easy small talk. How would you be aware

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that you've upset a Brit? Oh, you just

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get a dirty look. Yeah.

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Hi everybody. Welcome to a new street

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interview episode of Easy English. This

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week I wanted to ask a simple question.

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What is an English stereotype? I wanted

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to ask the people of Brighton about the

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most popular English stereotypes and if

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they're true or false. Before we carry

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on, we have an exciting announcement

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about our Easy English membership. We're

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now offering all video members video

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downloads with autogenerated subtitles.

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More of that later on in the video, but

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for now, this is what are English

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stereotypes. Here we go. All English

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people love queuing.

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Uh, probably true. We're good at

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queuing. Yeah. Yeah. Great British

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queue.

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