Referát: Life in Great Britain

The British are very polite and have good manners - they are never tired of saying „Thank you“, „I am sorry“, or „Excuse me“. The English word „gentleman“ mean a man with good manners all over the world. But they are also said to be very conservative and „keeping himself to himself“ - they e.g. don’t shake hands or kiss hello as people on the (European) Continent. They try to preserve their privacy, sometimes they are cold, but always use their dry humour (jokes which concern Scottish people are also popular). The British are nowadays still too conservative (that) they aloof and don’t accept even high educated people who are foreign citizens - a bipolar society is everyday fact in Britain. The biggest mark of their conservatisme is their system of weigts and measures, which they changed into decimal in 1971. On the other hand there is a long tradition of charity, which is ordinary and obvious part of the British lifestyle.