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去英国留学，提前了解一些英国的历史文化和人情世故是必不可少的，能帮助大家快速融入英国留学生活，不管你是什么专业的，可以借以扫除一下偏见。去英国留学前必须读的5本书，现在读还不晚！希望对去英国留学的的同学们有所帮助。 1. The English: A Portrait of a People，By Jeremy Paxman 《The English: A Portrait of a People》，作者：杰里米·帕克斯曼 In The English, the famously no-nonsense journalist and broadcaster Jeremy Paxman assesses what it means to be English today – specifically English, that is, not Welsh, Scottish, or Irish. In this wide-ranging work, Paxman charts the rise of a peculiar stereotype of Englishness that arose abroad in response to British colonialism, and its subsequent obsolescence following the disintegration of Empire. Emphasising the pluralistic interconnections between England's regions, cultures, and classes, The English gives historical grounding to some of the country' scurious social quirks and places them in the context of its people’s fluctuating identities. 在《The English》里头，以坦爽著称的记者、主持人Jeremy Paxman开门见山地评估当代英格兰人对自我的认识，并且分析其与威尔士人、苏格兰人、爱尔兰等人的差别。此作品内容广泛，Paxman在书中写道，大英帝国因在世界各地开拓殖民地，引起了当地人对英国人诸多的奇特偏见。如今，虽然大英帝国早已瓦解，但许多国家仍然保持着陈旧的偏见。通过描述英格兰各个地区、文化和社会阶级之间多样化的关系，Paxman描绘了英国社会的一些奇特怪癖的历史背景，并将它们和现代人变化多端的自我认知作比较。 | 
