To ask what you like the most about your country’s culture?

[PhilSwagielka]

As a contrast to that other thread.

For England, I’d say British humour (Monty Python, Red Dwarf, The Goon Show, Black Books etc.), football (not unique to us but it is big here), local markets, people’s love of gardening and growing their own fruit and veg, Anglo-Indian food, the kindness towards animals, a lot of indie/rock musicians, composers like Elgar and Britten, and we had some great children’s TV in the 80s.

That’s all I can think of right now.

Manchester music and standing in queues

Oh definitely Manchester music! I still love Ian Brown.
Also afternoon tea, and walking around the Lake district in the rain (holding a map) and enjoying it!!

Sunday roasts

Agree with humour.
Also, as we don't have a wine industry to protect we can drink wines from around the world. The French are very xenophobic about foreign wines, for example.

Being able to eat around the world. As people have travelled more we are more open minded about other cuisines.

The NHS
The police don't carry guns as a rule.
The BBC

NZ:

I love how Maori Te Reo and Tikanga, is slowly but surely becoming mainstream, and our mutual history re-examined and re-written with a more enlightened understanding of the impact of colonialism on Maori.
We're fairly laid back. Some might say apathetic, but we're less likely to get in a froth about somebody else having a differing point of view.
Our pride in our country
Our food - it's bloody awesome. I so miss Kiwi crayfish and whitebait, and NZ greenlipped mussels!
Our houses. They're open plan, and so conducive to family's interacting. (I know that will be controversial.)
Our preparedness to take a moral stance on the international playing field (Apartheid, nuclear free)
Our strong history of female leadership and suffragacy (is there such a word?)

Our way of coming together with aroha in the face of disaster - Christchurch Quakes, and the Terrorist fucker's attack on the Mosques.

UK:
You aren't looked at weirdly if you wear a dress, and our kids feel free to express themselves through clothing and makeup.
The food - you simply cannot beat a UK pub
The beer - have to say it knocks ours into a cocked hat!
The wine is getting increasingly better too!
Central heating in houses. I loves it.
The British seem to me to be wonderful at forming social connections and networks - I truly admire it, and wish I could figure out how to do it. It seems to involve a lot of dogwalking.
The way the British really get in there and give it some welly with events - Bonfire night, Halloween, Christmas, Easter, Clap for the NHS. . .
British humour. Quite often, gallows humour. . .
The Legal system, and rule of law.

Oh, and the education system and the teachers over here! They bloody rock.

For the UK the sense of humour, definitely. I also pubs, especially after a walk in the country.

For the US the idea that failure is just part of learning rather than something to be embarrassed about. Also the sense of adventure/possibility and openness to trying new things.

A good cup of builders tea

The humour, The NHS and the music

UK
-Not being overly friendly to strangers in the street, wait staff not being overly friendly etc (I’m naturally fairly antisocial and grumpy)
-Drinking culture, as in decent ale etc
-Night life, the only place I have found it to be as good was San Fran

Pakistan
-Sense of community
-Music being part of everyday life

Northern Irish-

VERY family orientated.

Big funerals. It’s only when I started using Mumsnet that I realised that it wasn’t the done thing in the rest of the U.K. to go to the funerals of your colleagues’ extended families.

Sense of humour- can be quite dark but there are a lot of funny fuckers in this part of the world

Having the option of getting an Irish passport when Brexit became a shit show

UK: tea, Indian food, sense of humour, shops.

France: teaching (I'm a teacher), healthcare, food in general, the space.

@Serin

Oh definitely Manchester music! I still love Ian Brown. Also afternoon tea, and walking around the Lake district in the rain (holding a map) and enjoying it!!

New Order are my fave Manchester band. Love the Happy Mondays too.

UK:

• The humour- all of it, the irony, the stand-up, the panel shows... One of the most difficult (but funniest) conversations of my life has been trying to explain The League of Gentleman to people I'd met in the USA.
• BBC
• Television in general is a lot better than in any other country I've been to
• NHS
• Music (not necessarily more modern stuff but, generally, I think it's pretty great)
• Liberal attitudes, in comparison to most countries
• Tea
• Certain eccentricities (not all)

Village communities, nosy neighbours peeping from curtains but they are there when you need them.

Sunday roasts and pub food generally.

The bbc

Tea & biscuits

The acceptability of beans on toast as a meal

Polite queuing

The NHS

Support for the underdog, especially in a sporting context.

People cheering in pubs when someone drops something.

UK
Being able to walk in the countryside, even on your own and not having to worry about about getting attacked by wild creatures such as bears, wolves, alligators/poisonous insects or snakes or even worse attacked kidnapped, carjacked, robbed or worse by unsavoury people.
I don't think people realise how safe it is here.
Also, being able to walk in the countryside at any time of the day without worrying about extreme temperatures.
I love our moderate, soft gentle climate.

The freedom to dress how you want. There is no strict adherence to any particular fashion. No one cares if you look different
Oh and Pubs. Lovely pubs.

UK The weirdly competitive need to try and outdo eachother when it comes to whinging about all the things they hate about the place.they live.

Of course that was meant for tother thread

Humour. Multiculturalism.

All of the quaint village fete, welly flinging contests, National Trust, cream teas, farmer's markets, craft fairs type of stuff.

Roast dinners and fish and chips.

Pubs.

Good TV. And those British TV institutions like Antiques Roadshow, Gardener's World, Doctor Who, Blue Peter etc

Love of animals.

Definitely the humour, the seasons being different rather then just all rolled into one.
The love of moaning about the weather 😆.
Tea helps everything no matter what.
NHS and mostly the benefit system for people who need help.

West End theatre, world class restaurants, great museums - many of which are free, great music industry, queing and general politeness (not applicable on the tube), dogs, pub lunches.

Probably lots more that I've forgotten.

Freedom of speech
Equality

The humour. The lack of guns. The fact that even though it's not perfect the police are less corrupt and violent than in many many other places. The countryside. The fact that my grandparents were, on the whole, welcome here and able to assimilate. I would have said Royal Mail but that's gone to shit. I'm grateful to be English despite everything. I'm quite fond of the Queen even!