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[jazzmaster]

An interesting point to raise is how the history of each country has contributed to the food and drink that is popular.
The English colonization of India and China relates to the enduring popularity of Indian food, tea, etc whereas the high level of immigration into the USA has resulted in particular foods, such as Mexican, becoming popular.

[tophatcat]

[young_clinton]

[radcon]

Teeth

[young_clinton]

The type of British person that you have to deal with depends on the circumstances. If you're talking about the British in Thailand, many of them are garbage, foul mouthed, bigoted, have the pretense that being british makes them more civilized than anyone else, although many of them would be on the dole back home. The british women in Thailand are even worse. In Saudi Arabia those kind are few and far between, mostly polite, well educated gentlemen.

[young_clinton]

[Teechuh]

[quote="Julius"]
Americans are fairly straightforward. Which I like. English people are often duplicitous however and love stabbing each other in the back.

English folks like to "take the pi**". Basically wind each other up. Bullying, teasing, it often goes too far. Americans are less into that. Which is good.
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I'm sorry? Ridiculous generalisations are inevitable in such a thread, on Dave's at least, but saying an entire nation of people love stabbing in each other in the back? What are you basing this on exactly? We might not, generally speaking, be as forthright as Americans but there's no underlying duplicity behind it and it sounds rather petty to suggest there is.

The British sense of humour is without a doubt what I miss most about England. It might come across as offensive to other nationalities from time to time, but it's all about not taking yourself too seriously. Most people I know don't tend to favour those who are too full of themselves. It's seen as an unattractive character trait. Most of the time it's just good natured teasing. Bullying is something completely different from someone 'taking the p***'.

[edwardcatflap]

[lithium]

[Smithington]

You could start your lesson with Churchill's quote that, "America and Britain are one people separated by a common language."

Oh, and be sure to emphasize that that language comes from Britain, not America.

[mayorhaggar]

[Teechuh]

Nobody over the age of ten drinks squash. It's also sweeter than juice which is why kids like it. A popular drink with the rest of the (adult) nation is cider which, and I could be wrong, I don't think is drunk so much in the states. It's an alcoholic drink made with apples. Not the alternative to sprite that it is here.

Football players are definitely a good way to go. You're right nobody knows David Beckham any more but try Frank Lampard, Wayne Rooney, Gareth Bale (Welsh), Danny Welbeck, Ashley Cole and Theo Walcott. My kids are obsessed with all of them and often interrupt my lessons to ask my opinion on their matches.

[Teechuh]

Also our pancakes are much larger and thinner, basically like crepes, and are often eaten with lemon and sugar or golden syrup. I don't know if you're aware of pancake day (Shrove Tuesday) in February but it's a tradition which came from people using up all the fatty foods and having a last binge before Ash Wednesday and the start of lent. On this day we usually eat pancakes for dinner, sometimes a mixture of sweet and savoury. The smaller, fatter pancakes that Americans eat, we call Scotch Pancakes.

[Daelim]

[cam83]