In WATCHING THE ENGLISH anthropologist Kate Fox takes a revealing look at the quirks, habits and foibles of the English people. She puts the English national character under her anthropological microscope, and finds a strange and fascinating culture, governed by complex sets of unspoken rules and byzantine codes of behaviour. The rules of weather-speak. The ironic-gnome rule. The reflex apology rule. The paranoid-pantomime rule. Class indicators and class anxiety tests. The money-talk taboo and many more ...Through a mixture of anthropological analysis and her own unorthodox experiments (using herself as a reluctant guinea-pig), Kate Fox discovers what these unwritten behaviour codes tell us about Englishness.

在《观察英国人》一书中，人类学家凯特-福克斯对英国人的怪癖、习惯和弱点进行了深入的研究。她将英国人的民族性格置于人类学显微镜下，并发现一种奇怪而迷人的文化，由复杂的潜规则和繁琐的行为准则所支配。天气术语的规则。讽刺性的名字规则。反射性道歉规则。妄想症-哑剧规则。班级指标和班级焦虑测试。通过人类学分析和她自己的非正统实验（用她自己作为不情愿的小白鼠）的混合，凯特-福克斯发现这些不成文的行为准则告诉我们关于英国人的什么。