Hey there friends! I’m Geeky Pixel.
You know what I think is unfair? British stereotypes.
I mean, sure, we deserve some of them…
…But not all of them.
So I thought, that since I live in Britain, we could talk about that today!
To start with, I thought we’d talk about the most popular one:
That it always rains in Britain.
Apparently, some people think that, in England especially, we always carry around umbrellas
because it’s always raining.
And, to be fair, that's mostly true, but not the umbrellas bit.
We get quite a mixed bag, weather wise. We get a fair bit of rain, but not a terrible
amount and in the summer, we get some nice hot days.
We get the occasional flood too, but who doesn’t love a good old flood!
And, and this is the exciting bit, we also get heat waves, which is fun! Just make sure
to wear your sun tan lotion or sunscreen. I don’t know what to call it. It’s…
it’s something.
Personally, I prefer the colder weather as it doesn't make my computer overheat and crash
- but, then again, that is just me.
Another thing people always say us people in Britain do is talk funny.
And, people tend to believe that, we in England especially, all talk either “all fancy,
like the queen”, or…
Oh goodness, how am I going to do this?
“All cockney, cor blimey! Ain’t that right guvna?” No, that’s terrible. You get the
idea, I’m just bad at impressions.
Alternatively, you may think we always finish our sentences with a “tally ho” or a “pip pip".
But… errr… well, no. We err… we don’t do that. Sorry.
You may also have been led to believe that:
We all dress up like victorians or Edwardians
I don’t really know the difference.
But, if you’ve never been to England, you may well believe it. And you may think that
everyone dresses up in a full suit with a bowler hat and always carries a briefcase
around.
In fact, let me draw a picture of what I bet you think all British people look like.
You think we look like this don’t you?
Unfortunately, this isn’t entirely true as… well… nobody does that.
And, it’s… well… it looks pretty silly doesn’t it? And it isn’t very practical.
I mean, if you got mud on it, you’re going to have to pay a lot to get it cleaned and
nobody wants that. Do they?
Another stereotype is that everyone in Britain drinks tea.
Okay, so this one is probably true as about 90% of the people I know here do all drink
tea at least 3 times a day, but, personally, I don’t like it all that much.
And when I say I don’t like it all that much…
… I do mean…
… I don’t really like it…
… At all.
Sorry.
But, while tea is very popular in Britain, it isn’t as central to our everyday lives
as you may have been led to believe.
In fact, did you know that Turkey, as in the country, not the animal, that they drink more
tea than the UK? So we really don’t deserve the stereotype that everyone in Britain goes
and
“drinks high tea at 4 o’clock in the afternoon”
as, not only is that something that nobody does, but it's also that people in
Turkey are more likely to do. You know, because they drink more tea.
Another common stereotypes is that our food sucks.
And, if I’m completely honest, yes, this one is probably true.
I mean, if you think British food, you probably think fish and chips which is just really
boring.
Can’t we just have something a bit more exciting like… erm… cupcakes as our national
food! That’d be much better and much more exciting.
You may also thing of crumpets and scones
YES I SAID SCONE! NOT SCON!
when you think
of Britain, which I really do like, but they just aren’t as exciting as donuts.
Well, I hope you got a bit of a better understanding about British stereotypes or something, I
don't really know.
Maybe you didn't.
Who knows?
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