Social Etiquette: Britain vs. America

Laurence Brown grew up in the UK but lives in the US now. His YouTube video series called Lost in the Pond explains the differences he notices between the two nations. In the latest video, he contrasts how Brits and Yanks do social occasions. The subject came up after the viral discovery that families in Sweden don't find it necessary to include guests in their meals. Brown says that varies from home to home in Britain. The joke used to be that if someone offers to serve British food to you, you should go home immediately. But since Brown has moved to the US, the British national cuisine has become takeout curry, so the old jokes about awful English food have faded away. Still, he has a lot of wry observances about how Americans and the British differ in the way we socialize around food and drink.

If you're not already familiar with Lost in the Pond, here's a recent video explaining how Brown ended up as the internet's foremost British-American translator.

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