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0:00 hello welcome to easy english today i want to know what brits think about brits let's go what do brits think about brits i'm actually not too sure no i'm really not too sure what do you think about other british people well i'm kind of proud of them yeah and i feel part of them okay but i'm aware that there's obviously many brits that i don't know probably then if you know you've got bad bad ones you've got good ones and what is it about what are you kind of proud of about is it about their nature about how we sort of generally behave or our history or i think so i think generally we're quite a funny nation yeah okay uh good sense of humor we've lived abroad in different countries where have you
0:47 lived in germany holland america wow okay and uh we always missed it that's for sure the human i mean well we miss we missed home and we miss the people as well unique isn't it absolutely right well i think i think we're such an insular country you know with the scotland ireland wales and england yeah and i just think we all we all think we're rather marvelous because of the industrial revolution first up we started all that off you know and we we were well ahead at that point um i do think we have an inflated view of being because some people just think it's the best thing in the world yeah not looking at all the other cultures
1:32 all the other countries you know i i do think we've got it out of uh out of sync really for sure you know the british people right yes yeah what do you think about them i think they're like posh hush yeah yeah and all of them most of them okay are you posh not really okay i go to school in new haven not really no okay this video was sponsored by italki the site that allows you to find online language teachers for one-on-one tutoring as a new user you'll get 10 dollars in italki credits after your first lesson if you register using the link go.italki.com forward slash easy english if you don't
2:18 like reading complicated language books or listening to pre-recorded audio courses then italki is for you you'll get to practice your conversational skills under different real world scenarios and speaking with humans is the best and fastest way to learn a language you can customize your lessons to cater for your language needs and interests and the one-on-one lessons provide you with undivided attention with teachers at your preferred time whether you're at home at the airport or at the local park you have complete access so head on over to italki and use the link go to italki.com forward slash easy english to start your first lesson and get 10 dollars in italki credits what do you think about brits it's a very good question um i i think
3:05 it's a moving feast right i think it depends on which parts of the country you go to it depends on the people you meet and the stories they have to tell you i think there's a country of stories i think that we're all great storytellers in britain and and part of being british to me is about that it's about embracing these stories it's about having humor with the stories and how you tell them and it's about embracing how we're all entirely different and how we're all individual in our pursuits and our beliefs our cultural heritage views on society all these things so to be british has has changed an awful lot over the last
3:50 100 years or so of course it has and um it's been a great shift i think in acceptance um and and hopefully things will will stay stay the same um and of course with the recent climate we've covered we've gotta pull together and um we are a community um bigger and and smaller and i think that um to me it's about those things my opinion on brits i'd say are not particularly that great okay i know i think that brits have got a bit of a bad name for themselves brawls because they're quite large louty yeah um we're and we're very um we're very self-conscious of ourselves
4:36 aren't we you know like you get most of europe aren't as apologetic when they bump into each other so i think we're really sensitive and we're larger out and we're um i think we're a strange bunch really and is this i'm struggling is this your opinion or is this what you think people think like is this a generic view this is probably oh this is this is our what this is because what's the question the question is what i actually think well it doesn't have to be it can be like what do brits as a group think of things as a group or what is your sort of very specific opinion from all the british people you know we're uh individual uh we're different from the rest of europe yeah got our own little quirks
5:22 okay um like our home comforts yeah and we've got fun okay i'm interested in the quirks what what quirks kind of identify brits do you t a marmite full english breakfast yeah sunday roast okay um is there uh is there more i'm thinking more like behavioral things that kind of bring that we can all say we have as brits uh it might be cliched but it's like superiority complex oh yeah yeah okay i think why did you say that i don't personally have it myself but i i observations okay but what's superior about what
6:08 well like if you go abroad you want you want you want stuff that you have at home when you're abroad yeah i'm i'm a bit different because i was born here but yeah i've got my parents of sri lanka so i've always had another culture involved so i've noticed it even in sri lanka you can see the colonial influence how it's made its mark like the tea the cake the beer g and t yeah we just demand our own or yeah or it's it's good so it's rubbed off on other people i guess two ways of looking at it what what do you think about british people we have a lot of banter and we don't take things seriously okay and can you define what what does what is banter it's just what you joke about and you
6:54 don't you just take the piss out of each other well you make fun of people for their hair or something just like him he's genuinely ginger so this is banter right yeah okay and this is what all british people can do or what some guys we have a few mates so we'll just sit there and we'll take the joke out of them and then they'll just sit there crying for the next week so would you say that british people are sensitive so really some some of them most of them most of us just banter all the time yeah so what tease each other would you say you two are kind of guys that aren't sensitive but have this banterous kind of humor yeah yeah yeah banter yeah okay can you no do you have any banter for us right now for each other weren't you he's ginger
7:40 i'm not ginger right now um we're not social distancing but it's too far oh my god oh my god british people just generally just joke about mo normally just like it so often or it's on tv or something like that well it's like everyone has this like thing like british like people are all poshing all that but like they're not really like everyone just jokes about some people could take it some don't so it just depends on the person really and the posh thing uh where does do you think this is like someone else's opinion that's not true or most like people from other countries
8:26 think like english people like or washing that and they're just like just drink tea for like on a daily basis so okay do you is this not true you don't drink tea i'll drink it okay so it's completely true then could you sort of specify a sort of typical british humor self-deprecating yes i think that that's pretty pretty obvious certainly the other nations that we lived in they didn't quite get that kind of humor that kind of sarcasm the banter they took everything literally where we don't could you could you because banters are kind of a word which it has different connotations what would how could you like how would you um how would you describe banter well you
9:13 were in a football environment weren't you yeah so it was it was like football it's quite a hot it can be quite harsh it can be seen as quite harsh can't it yeah even between friends you know they could walk in a pub and uh the first thing you do is tell them how bad their jumper or shirt is and other nations tend not to do that but it's it's it's a term of endearment when you when you say that to uh to your friends perhaps yeah what would you say about brits nowadays modern brits um when i think of my mum and dad and my aunts and uncles all who are dead they were they were brilliant you know they they knew what they were they did they did they they went to work they came home they looked after their
9:59 family i do think modern brits do moan an awful lot i don't think um they have the same feelings as about family especially and social stuff um that they did back say in you know after the wars yeah because they came out as that and they rebuilt the whole country socially especially i think and i think you know that's a lot to do with it but i do think we are very socially minded and stuff like that you know you look down your nose you know that program but i look down my nose at him because he's only this and then someone else looks down at him you know we're very much like that i do think we do that judging sort of thing and i've got a bad neck yeah yeah that's right yeah and i've got a bad neck as well so what do you expect
10:44 that's right yes okay so we're kind of the modern day brits are almost like the spoiled child or something well they are yes they haven't had to work hard for anything i don't think i mean obviously going to university and that's so much easier than it used to be yeah yeah so yeah i think we have it handed to us almost we are almost like a nanny state i think how would you describe this humor um wreath but at times ruthless and direct sometimes occasionally slightly um dark as well i think sometimes the british humor it can be quite dark also it can be sometimes um overly respectful as well you know we don't hurt others feelings being british and we have that respect i hope for for
11:29 each other most of the time not all the time uh most of the time i'd say funny because it's quite a contrasting thing you just surgery yeah it's a contrast you're brutal but we're very tall don't want to offend anyone i think i think with your friends ryan your mates you can have that brutality yeah and you can be just just um on the edge right and be cutting but i think with those you don't know that kind of sense of you know humor being used to offset some things that aren't so great you know you offset that kind of um atmospheric challenge you have from some people sometimes yeah you know and you hear all the time right you hear it wherever you go there's this british humor and small talk we're very good at small talk in britain and all that time we kind of use for small talk i mean goodness me that that's got to be
12:15 years of our lives all of us engaged in in small talk by the weather and all kinds of other other unimportant things which we are so obsessed with insecure insecure lag allowed and that's what people think of us and that's what i also think we're all live okay so then you could tell me this i'm not a lag now [Laughter] but then if this is a past version of yourself then maybe there's a modern version of brits that is different to this lager loud so well i suppose it was like every culture we've all got our different
13:01 um we've got a different we're quite opinionated aren't we don't you think we're quite opinionated so and we're quite judgmental we are judgmental which i don't and i'm trying to work on that myself as a brit that i don't like to be so judgmental but we are yeah but then i think that's just the rest of the world i think all human beings are so i have helped you here on this question about brits not really i've sort of come worldwide kind of looped that round but what sets us aside is it just the beer drinking and the insecurity is that yeah uh i literally i yeah we've just got that whole we ha i don't think our reputation's that great no no i think we've got a not to the rest not
13:46 to the rest of europe say i think we're the with the naughty bunch right our own little island yeah just we're just naughty so we've got a bit of a yeah a bad name for ourselves but but we're all right we're doing all right thanks for watching this week's episode let me know in the comments below what you think of your fellow country folk and we'll see you next week bye i work with children i think you know the children are accredited and equally i think the older generation are a real creditor assume that they're stoic you think what they went through for everybody and um yeah i think we're a little island but we've got a big heart haven't we
