A typical portrait of an English businessman is a trained, erudite person who is characterized by the highest professional training. The circle of his interests is wide: from literature and art to sports.
• English snobbery is known in the whole world.
• Talks about weather.
• "My house is my castle".
• The most common picture depicting a typical Englishman is a man wearing a bowler hat and reading the Times newspaper, though bowler hats are now rarely seen in England.
• A lot of folks overseas think that the English are crazy about dogs and love them more than their kids.
• England is a land of beer, football and bad weather. (Contrary to popular belief, it DOES NOT rain every day in England!).
• "When I think of the English, I think of beer, honesty, bulldog-type, Royal Family, cricket, the weather" - Dickie Bird (famous English cricket umpire).
• "Long shadows on county cricket grounds, warm beer, invincible green suburbs, dog lovers and old maids bicycling through the morning mist - that is England" - John Major (Ex Prime Minister).
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