A review by qwu
Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour by Kate Fox

2.0

It was okay I think? Mm, I do find some of the quirks of English people cute, for example, the awkward, turtle-like character, but the class consciousness honestly can be rather frustrating. I normally try not to generalize, but a book like this seems doomed to generalize to some extent, which I suppose is also what makes it hard for readers to see it as something more serious, and academic maybe. To be fair though, like Kate Fox said in the book herself, it'd be hard to pin down a national character. Nonetheless, she's provided some very interesting points for non-English people to think about!