Initial List of Intriguing cultural differences. There are no toilet seat covers in LondonPeople walk much faster here

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Karen O’Toole

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Cultural Anthropology-310

- Initial List of Intriguing cultural differences.

There are no toilet seat covers in London

People walk much faster here

Crossing the streets is extremely dangerous.

People on the tube won’t acknowledge your presence

Everyone is an aggressive driver

Young children take the tube alone to school and back

If you talk on the tube you receive dirty looks

       In the first week or so I found some of my observations to be quite odd, and wondered how

people were able to live with conditions such as these.  As some time has passed I realized

Londoners are used to way the things work here, and even after a few short weeks I became to

understand, and in most cases appreciate them as well.  The only exception would be the toilet

seat covers, which I miss much more than California.  Londoners tend to be very busy,

especially during the week, and that is easily shown by their brisk walking pace.  Their

annoyance is displayed everytime you can see them stuck behind people walking slow and

blocking their path.  Crossing the streets is an adventure everytime, but after you know and

respect the danger involved then it is not as dangerous as it first seems as long as you are

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cautious.   Londoners on the tube will almost always completely everyone else and avoid eye

contact at all costs.  It is very hard to drive in London unless you are familiar with it.  In some

place the lack of traffic signs could make a defensive driver take an hour for a drive that should

only take minutes.  I was shocked when I saw young children taking the tube and walking the

streets of London alone.  I live in a very quiet small affluent town back home and children are

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