The idea of the section was inspired by my day job at a nameless institution. Many times while working I found myself explaining to someone English about something I thought was basic and fundamental knowledge for anyone who was English.
After years of answering these questions, I realised that because I am an outsider to the culture, I have sought to learn all that I could about English culture. If I was born here, would I bother as much? Are there aspects of American culture that I know nothing about?
In this feature, I will look at particularly English phenomena and with my outsiders view-point try to get to grips with it and to understand it a bit more. Hopefully it will be interesting to both the English and non-English alike.
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