#english culture
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"Watching the english" is a really fun book which has a bunch of anthropological looks at the english :) you can find it on https://archive.org/details/watchingenglishh0000foxk or find a pdf by googling "watching the english pdf" it's very useful I think for both english people and those who aren't in regards to understanding how english people act, there's also audio books out there
I recently recommended it to one of my friends and he listened to it and was like "oh this explains why english people do a lot of things which irritates me which does not make me any happier but does explain a lot and show it's normal for england"
Thank you SO MUCH!!!!!
The academic in me is chomping at the bit to get stuck into these I can’t wait.
Will report back 🫡
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As a bilingual person, I realised that my handwriting is terrible in my native language AND second language...
Soooo I got curious
!!Please reblog for more answers!!
#poll series#my curiosity must be answered#/pa#languages#bilingual#trilingual#multilingual#polygot#guys idk just *insert every culture here*#English culture#French culture#German culture#Arabic culture#african culture#Indian culture#east asain culture#japanese culture#korean culture#Singaporean culture
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Sometimes i feel so alone and then i remember my Divine Mother Frig is always here for me <3
Love and peace <3
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my rant about americans and how they refuse to believe that british people are allowed to have culture for some reason cause i saw a tiktok and it did it’s job of pissing me tf off and i needed to rant.
getting real fuckin sick of just rude arse americans saying that the british have no culture (in a way that isn’t satire)
Britain consists of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
i genuinely fucking dare you to go up to someone who was born and raised literally anywhere in Northern Ireland and tell them they have no culture because you will be launched into next fuckin sunday
My mother is Scottish, her parents were both scottish, so we’re their parents and their parents and so on. You want to look my mother in the eyes and tell her she has no culture?
With her four different middle names all deriving from different branches of our family?
that the glengarry that hangs on my aunts wall, that my grandfather wore in the war has no significance to history of our country?
That different sports and songs, though only sports and songs, that carry great meaning, stories, myths, beliefs and history all mean nothing?
that the highest points of our country that stand away from the mainland that date back to at least 500bc are without culture?
that the welsh language, dishes, music, myths, saints, folklore and battles all what? just mean fuck all?
that the english, yes even the fucking english, do not have a culture of their own, one from hundreds of years ago with folk dancing and saints and traditional dresses and flowers and patterns aren’t cultured?
Kilts? Clans? Instruments? Folk songs? Traditional meals? Saints? Myths? Religions? Fucking Halloween?
Piss off genuinely it makes me so unbelievably fucking mad because you refuse to look past a time in history for a second. Not ignore it but just see anything else for a second and see what you’re missing out on, the pure beauty you refuse to acknowledge because you were tainted to believe we’re all a load of arseholes so please for the love of fuck either piss off and leave us alone or just look at the truly amazing history of four different countries and find some fuckin respect jesus h christ.
#scotland#ireland#northern ireland#wales#scottish highlands#england#english culture#scottish culture#northern irish culture#welsh culture#britain#british history#culture
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Rose Queen Parade in Bacup, Lancashire (1965)
The culture and flowering of roses has been celebrated since at least Ancient Roman times, when the lavish Rosalia (also known as rosatio, meaning rose adornment) carnival was staged. And, rose growing nations have held various themed events ever since. From the 1880s, the rose queen festival, mostly held in June, became a major annual event in towns and villages across the UK, especially in Lancashire - known as the red rose county, following the Wars of the Roses (1455-87)
Rose queen festivals share similarities with May Day, which originally marked the dawning of the Celtic summer and fertility rites, but – like many British ‘traditions’ – was re-presented by the Victorians. Like the May queen, her rosy highness was chosen for her scholarly and/or religious diligence, popularity and/or beauty. Along with her attendant maidens, and occasionally partnered with a king, she was conveyed ceremoniously by rose decorated horse or pony drawn cart or lurry, on a street parade that culminated at a local green site.
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#that's my grandma :')#rose queen#rose queen parade#history#english history#british history#english heritage#english culture#english cultural heritage#may queen#festival
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English culture is saying that devastating things “aren’t ideal” whilst a minor inconvenience is a “bloody nightmare”
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The Season
What is the actual meaning of the "Season" in every regency era movie/book? Let me explain it to you!
People started using "The Season" as an expresson in the 17th century, for that period in a year where the elite went for balls, dinner parties etc. However, "The Season" was mostly used, and very opular int the 19th century.
This is where elite families introduced their 'marriageable' daugthers to the high class. And this is where most of them found their hubands. These young ladies (the debutantes) were introduced into the society during the Queen Charlotte's ball.
Seasons started at the end of December or in January, and they lasted till the middle of summer. But unfortunately in 1958 the Queen ended this habit of London's elite.
Thank you for reading, hope you enjoyed it!
/girlsclub2004/
#bridgerton#regency era#england#english culture#17th century#women in history#coquette#lily rose depp#lana del gay#daphne bridgerton#netflix bridgerton#anthony bridgerton#colin bridgerton#you have to know this
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I've been thinking about my personal rituals and making little changes. I love how Spring inspires us all to embrace new beginnings!
In my Hearth Witchcraft post, I talked about how Hearth Witches see magic in the everyday things we do at home. Our routines honor ourselves, our loved ones, our ancestors, and our gods.
I love to explore and connect with my ancestry through Kitchen Witchcraft, which is closely related to Hearth Witchcraft. I research social customs, traditional recipes, and popular beverages to connect with the cultures I come from.
Most people in the U.S. are familiar with the concept of tea time in the United Kingdom. Every day around the same time, millions of people sit down with tea, biscuits, and/or sandwiches. But a ritual afternoon snack exists across the world under many names! In Germany, it's called "Kaffee und Kuchen," which translates to coffee and cake.
I love this idea of an afternoon respite! Being of English and German descent, I’ve decided to start treating myself to an afternoon snack in the name of my ancestors! As such, I’ve added Tea Time and Kaffee und Kuchen to my regular schedule.
What ways do y'all bring your ancestors into your daily life? ✨️
#witchblr#paganism#hearth witchcraft#hearthwitch#kitchen witch#kitchen witchcraft#german culture#english culture
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If EA moved to England and started to try and sell people the Alice Liddell story? She would see the real side of the English who don’t take no s***. For this reason, I hope she never moves here. We English can be brutal and won’t let you live your lies down.
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Proof that Robert Crawley is a True Englishman
“Keeping pets, for the English, is not so much a leisure activity as an entire way of life. In fact, 'keeping pets' is an inaccurate and inadequate expression - it does not begin to convey the exalted status of our animals. An Englishman's home may be his castle, but his dog is the real king. People in other countries may buy luxurious five-star kennels and silk-lined baskets for their pets, but the English let them take over the whole house. The unwritten rules allow our dogs and cats to sprawl all over our sofas and chairs, always hogging the best places in front of the fire or television. They get far more attention, affection, appreciation, encouragement and 'quality time' than our children, and often better food. (...) The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was established more than half a century before the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, which appears to have been founded as a somewhat derivative afterthought.
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The English relationship with animals is different: our pets are more than status indicators (although they do serve this purpose)and our affinity with them goes well beyond sentimentality. It is often said that we treat them like people, but this is not true. Have you seen how we treat people? It would be unthinkable to be so cold and unfriendly to an animal. OK, I'm exaggerating - a bit. But the fact is that we tend to be far more open, easy, communicative and demonstrative in our relationships with animals than with each other.
The average Englishman will assiduously avoid social interaction with his fellow humans, and will generally become either awkward or aggressive when obliged to communicate with them, unless certain props and facilitators are available to help the process along. He will have no difficulty at all, however, in engaging in lively, amicable conversation with a dog. Even a strange dog, to whom he has not been introduced. Bypassing all the usual stilted embarrassments, his greeting will be effusive: 'Hello there!' he will exclaim. 'What's your name? And where have you come from, then? D'you want some of my sandwich, mate? Mm, yes, it's not bad, is it? Here, come up and share my seat! Plenty of room!'”
- from "Watching the English" by Kate Fox.
It's already plenty long, so I cut it a bit for length and for special characters I don't know the keyboard commands for and don't feel like looking up, but if this doesn't sum up Robert's relationship with his dogs, I don't know what does. Similarly, it backs my observation that while Robert would know exactly what to do with an abused dog, he has no clue what to do with an abused Thomas.
Then again, it maybe that Thomas would have more idea what to do with an abused dog than an abused Thomas. This makes it seem rather likely and, well, I wouldn’t die of shock.
#downton abbey#english culture#robert crawley#dogs#this is one point where I will fit right in#because i never address humans when there's an animal to say 'hello' to#this is a very fun book#watching the english
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Excellent sign I saw In my local kebab shop today. Rlly represents the culture
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Twitter users can be ignorant as hell
I’ve come to the conclusion that most people on Twitter have mashed potatoes for brains, and not the good kind cause mash is usually delicious. Lemme explain.
I've seen someone say something like "I went to Scotland and England, and while Scotland has a unique culture, England literally has no culture", which I cringed and laughed at to be honest. It seems like everyone has dumbed down the definition of culture to just "nice food, clothes and traditions", when culture is a lot more than that.
The literal definition of culture is the ideas, customs, traditions and social behaviours of a group or community. So right off the bat, EVERY SINGLE person on this planet has a culture, so to say a country has "no culture" is ignorant and pretty uneducated. And culture can also be defined by popular culture (such as entertainment, TV, theatre or music scenes), traditions (such as Bonfire night/Guy Fawkes night), linguistics (such as regional dialects and slang terms depending on your regional background, social class, ethnicity, etc), etc.
I would elaborate but right now my brain is mush.
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Pisses me off when people make fun of Britain for stupid reasons.
There are many much more valid reasons to make fun of Britain. Like, for example, the fact that we have a dessert called "spotted dick"
#this is a joke#Or at least lighthearted#I'm not really mad at anyone#Spotted dick is real tho I haven't tried it#english culture#british culture#britain#british
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Studying linguistics is actually so wonderful because when you explain youth slang to older professors, instead of complaining about how "your generation can't speak right/ you're butchering the language" they light up and go “really? That’s so wonderful! What an innovative construction! Isn't language wonderful?"
#linguistics#gen z slang#english#as people in the reblog pointed out!#most gen z slang comes from (or was appropriated from) aave#honestly I was just excited to talk about how people in my field actually get excited about non standard uses of English#instead of ridiculing speakers#and I tagged incorrectly and didn’t point out the very real issues of language and power and appropriation inherent in modern slang#in that much of it was appropriated#and even that which experiences language change in the wider culture still originated in aave#aave is just as linguistically valid as any other English dialect because it is a proper language#and the grammar is incredible!!!#habitual be is fantastic and an excellent example of how a richer case system or a certain case can render an adverb unnecessary#and the phonology is just beautiful#anyway I’m very sorry#I fucked up
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the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"
just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible
#due to the Great Data Decay academics write viciously argumentative articles on which episodes aired in what order#at conferences professors have known to engage in physically violent altercations whilst debating the air date number of household viewers#90% of the couch gags have been lost and there is a billion dollar trade in counterfeit “lost copies”#serious note: i'll be honest i always assumed it was english imperialism that made shakespeare so inescapable in the 19th/20th cent#like his writing should have become obscure at the same level of his contemporaries#but british imperialists needed an ENGLISH LANGUAGE (and BRITISH) writer to venerate#and shakespeare wrote so many damn things that there was a humongous body of work just sitting there waiting to be culturally exploited...#i know it didn't happen like this but i imagine a English Parliament House Committee Member For The Education Of The Masses or something#cartoonishly stumbling over a dusty cobwebbed crate labelled the Complete Works of Shakespeare#and going 'Eureka! this shall make excellent propoganda for fabricating a national identity in a time of great social unrest.#it will be a cornerstone of our elitist educational institutions for centuries to come! long live our decaying empire!'#'what good fortune that this used to be accessible and entertaining to mainstream illiterate audience members...#..but now we can strip that away and make it a difficult & alienating foundation of a Classical Education! just like the latin language :)'#anyway maybe there's no such thing as the 'greatest writer of x language' in ANY language?#maybe there are just different styles and yes levels of expertise and skill but also a high degree of subjectivity#and variance in the way that we as individuals and members of different cultures/time periods experience any work of media#and that's okay! and should be acknowledged!!! and allow us to give ourselves permission to broaden our horizons#and explore the stories of marginalized/underappreciated creators#instead of worshiping the List of Top 10 Best (aka Most Famous) Whatevers Of All Time/A Certain Time Period#anyways things are famous for a reason and that reason has little to do with innate “value”#and much more to do with how it plays into the interests of powerful institutions motivated to influence our shared cultural narratives#so i'm not saying 'stop teaching shakespeare'. but like...maybe classrooms should stop using it as busy work that (by accident or designs)#happens to alienate a large number of students who could otherwise be engaging critically with works that feel more relevant to their world#(by merit of not being 4 centuries old or lacking necessary historical context or requiring untaught translation skills)#and yeah...MAYBE our educational institutions could spend less time/money on shakespeare critical analysis and more on...#...any of thousands of underfunded areas of literary research i literally (pun!) don't know where to begin#oh and p.s. the modern publishing world is in shambles and it would be neat if schoolwork could include modern works?#beautiful complicated socially relevant works of literature are published every year. it's not just the 'classics' that have value#and actually modern publications are probably an easier way for students to learn the basics. since lesson plans don't have to include the#important historical/cultural context many teens need for 20+ year old media (which is older than their entire lived experience fyi)
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Puck’s Song by Rudyard Kipling
See you the ferny ride that steals
Into the oak-woods far?
O that was whence they hewed the keels
That rolled to Trafalgar.
See you the dimpled track that runs
All hollow through the wheat?
O that was where they hauled the guns
That smote King Philip’s fleet!
Out of the Weald, the secret Weald,
Men sent in ancient years
The horse-shoes red at Flodden Field,
The arrows at Poitiers.
See you our little mill that clacks,
So busy by the brook?
She has ground her corn and paid her tax
Ever since Domesday Book.
See you our stilly woods of oak,
And the dread ditch beside?
O that was where the Saxons broke,
On the day that Harold died!
See you the windy levels spread
About the gates of Rye?
O that was where the Northmen fled,
When Alfred’s ships came by!
See you our pastures wide and lone,
Where the red oxen browse?
O there was a City thronged and known,
Ere London boasted a house!
And see you, after rain, the trace
Of mound and ditch and wall?
O that was a Legion’s camping-place,
When Caesar sailed from Gaul!
And see you marks that show and fade,
Like shadows on the Downs?
O they are the lines the Flint Men made,
To guard their wondrous towns!
Trackway and Camp and City lost,
Salt Marsh where now is corn;
Old Wars, old Peace, old Arts that cease,
And so was England born!
She is not any common Earth,
Water or Wood or Air,
But Merlin’s Isle of Gramarye,
Where you and I will fare.
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#english poetry#poetry#rudyard kipling#england#english landscape#english history#english culture#English imagination#standing stones#avebury#Youtube
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