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Can You Memorize How to Be British?
Facts and figures may be important for would-be citizens of the country, but there are more practical ways to learn to live in the UK
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I’ve struggled with two states of being since moving to London from New York in 2018: American and British. A couple of months after I arrived, a work colleague came up to bum a cigarette. I said I didn’t smoke. She apologized, then said, “I could have sworn I smelled fag on you.”
How rude.