What Not to Do in Britain!: Save Yourself Failure, Embarrassment, Worry, Time, and Money

Giving the right impression is vital to career success in Britain. You can go to any heights in Britain if you give the right impression. This book is designed to help you get ahead in your British life. How can you do that if you keep making social blunders and making wrong choices out of ignorance? (wearing checked shirts with striped ties, or sniffing in public, for instance, ). It tells you about the social blunders to avoid in Britain, the do's and don'ts of British society, derived from twenty years of living in the UK. It tells you about the social and cultural minefields to avoid putting your foot in. The idea is to save you embarrassment, worry, time, money and ensure your success in your UK life. Your career depends on it. This is not a superficial view of the British people. British culture can be confusing for foreigners. However, it is possible to learn how to get along in British society eventually. This book, the result of twenty years of Brit-watching, could help you understand British people and British culture so that your progress through British society is smooth and successful. The Brits (i.e. the British) are different from the rest of us. They have their own ways of doing things. Sometimes, what they do and the way they do things may seem surprising, shocking, praiseworthy, silly, worth emulating, crazy, confounding... "Most people cannot see themselves as others see them," wrote Napoleon Hill nearly a hundred years ago in his book Think And Grow Rich. If a person born in the UK were writing this book, you would expect the writer to give quite a different take on their own culture. People are human and may find it difficult to see how others see them. Our emotions and loyalties can get in the way of an honest assessment. As a foreigner, the author, Rajiv Immanuel, is not held back by such emotional attachments. This book aims to be fair - to both this country and its people, and to foreigners too. This book not only tells you important things about British culture to help you, it also tells you of the realities of British culture that Brits will not be keen to write books about. Culture in Britain is evolving. Some British guides to British culture can be simply outdated. This book is not all negative. In this book you will learn about absolutely praiseworthy aspects of British attitudes and behaviour. Things the author gives the Brits full marks for. Brits do rise to extraordinary heights at times (find out in this book).

About the Author :
Dickens, Hardy, Hopkins, Chaucer, Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, Shakespeare, Milton, Maugham, Emerson... you name it - we had it. Works by such authors lined our bookshelves at home in India. Our wealth was mostly in our heads. This was the type of home I was born into in 1965. Apart from being Christians, another way in which we were different from people around us was that we spoke English at home. In the India of those days that was unusual. After a degree in Economics in 1982, I added an MBA in 1985. I worked for a while as a Civil Servant in India. I soon got bored with pushing files. In 1995 I arrived at Reading University, UK, to study for a PhD degree in Economics. The scholarship I came on is listed in this book. I learnt a lot about UK university life. As the years passed in the UK, we, my wife and I, found that our roots in the UK had become too strong to consider going back. Both our children were born here in the UK. We realised how much we loved this country and with the Home Office's co-operation decided to make the UK our home. Meanwhile, I had found my metier in life: to be a writer. Since then I have been a keen observer of life in the UK. Being Christians, we have been privileged to be invited into the homes of hundreds of British Christian families. And have had the opportunity of observing the British from close-up. My English journey is available as a book called just that: English Journey. While I have a great regard for this land, I am also aware that like any country there are problems here too. My life's mission is to write books that help other migrants after me understand this country, make the most of opportunities here, contribute to UK society, and avoid nasty surprises. In short: to prepare new migrants for UK life. In my books I have put my nearly two decades of living in this country at your service. I hope you find my books helpful and the information and practical advice useful. Best wishes for your UK life."