{"id":423,"date":"2011-04-24T03:49:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-24T09:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/?p=423"},"modified":"2011-04-24T03:49:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-24T09:49:00","slug":"boozy-brits-abroad-part-of-national-character","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/24\/boozy-brits-abroad-part-of-national-character\/","title":{"rendered":"Boozy Brits abroad part of national character"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Boozy<\/p>\n

MORE than a quarter of Britons think getting drunk abroad is a national characteristic, according to a survey marking England’s national day on Saturday.<\/p>\n

An Opinium Research poll of 2,012 British adults found that 60 per cent thought drinking tea was a national trait, closely followed by talking about the weather.<\/p>\n

Forty per cent associated a ‘stiff upper lip’ mentality – stoicism in the face of adversity – with being British. Meanwhile 32 per cent thought supporting the royal family was a British characteristic, as the country gears up for the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton on Friday.<\/p>\n

Twenty-eight per cent thought that getting drunk abroad was a British attribute, while fewer than one in three thought working hard made people British.<\/p>\n

‘Our research has revealed that it’s hard to pin down what it means to be British,’ said Opinium Research managing director James Endersby.<\/p>\n

‘With several stereotypical attributes making the list as well as wider personality traits, it goes to show that Britishness is a complex mix of characteristics.’ <\/p>\n

Photo By Bloomberg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MORE than a quarter of Britons think getting drunk abroad is a national characteristic, according to a survey marking England’s national day on Saturday. An Opinium Research poll of 2,012 British adults found that 60 per cent thought drinking tea was a national trait, closely followed by talking about the weather. Forty per cent associated […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":424,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions\/424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}