British Traditions and customs

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Introduction In other words, customs and traditions are those valuable pearls in the ocean lives of people, that have been collected during centuries as a result of the practical and spiritual understanding of reality.

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English character is, from one side, nearly most contradictory and paradoxical among the European people, almost all the features are straight opposite characteristics, and from other - very whole and certain, traced during many centuries. British Features of character

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All know about a right helm and left-side motion. Many more inconveniences are delivered by the English sanitary engineering defiant an endless surprise for extraneous users. It is difficult to understand how to someone it can be comfortably to be washed under two separate faucets with hot and cold water. Well, it is yet possible to present that you collect water in a shell and swash at home initr . But such division is not nearly clear in the places of the public use. A desire to swash in this case disappears . Traditions are in public life

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"My house is my fortress" Domestic side of British life

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Traditional holidays There are fewer public holidays in Great Britain than in other European countries. They are Christmas Day, Boxing Day, New Years Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, May Day, Spring Bank Holiday, and Summer Bank Holiday.

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As folk wisdom talks: the "friends and enemies must be known by sight". Indeed, knowing the personal touches of other nations, we can better understand the political and public looks of their countries. Exactly in this connection, to my mind, it is necessary to meet with the culture of other people, with their customs and characters for perfection of international relations and simply for own development, and also in order to compare culture and customs of our country to them, we could change something to improve them . CONCLUSION.

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