Re: Ping Brits

"Charles Bishop" <ctbishop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I don't know how many Brits are here, but I thought I'd give it a shot.
Answers to the second, followup question may lead me to an answer though.

In the US, and I presume there[1], there have been books written by
authors who have moved to France to live. They are mostly "how odd they do
things here, and it's humorous how we have to adapt to another culture"[2]
type. I was wondering if there were equivalent books written by, say, a
French person about moving to Britain. It would apply to Germans &c. as
well.

Hungarian George Mikes' "How to be an Alien" (1946) is a well-known example.
Here's something in German:
http://www.amazon.de/Nichts-gegen-Engl%C3%A4nder-Psychogramm-merkw%C3%BCrdigen/dp/3893201211/

[1] It occurs to me as I type this, that I shouldn't be asking the Brits
but the French, as the books I want will be written by them. If so, I'll
need another group, not British, but in English.

[2] Peter Maile and his books on life in Provance are the type I'm
thinking of.

Mayle; Provence. Do you also know Stephen Clarke's oeuvre?

Adrian


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