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《Where is the confidence from?》---Life in UK

已有 3362 次阅读 2014-4-4 05:10 |个人分类:Life in UK|系统分类:海外观察| 博士, 海外, 自信

It was quite impressive of the confidence that British people show to the public. I am trying to find the source of the conference from a historical perspective and make an explaination of their behavior.

As all know, ever before, the first and second industrial revolution boosted the economic development of United Kindom and rendered it to be the most prosperious and powerful country all around the world. Like today's America, UK at that period held the wild ambition to dominate the whole world on the solid basis of the powerful internal strength in reality. It went smooth that British military conquered a lot of countries in different continent due to the big difference in the military force. Eventually, UK became a superior empire which no one can compete with it. It was remarkable for a long period of time that British turned into an empire on which the sun never set. Actually, there are still a lot of proof in London which manifests the glorious moment that UK ever had in the history, such as British museum, British gallary. That is one of important factors which makes London as the most attractive tourist city since they collected a plenty of various antiques from different country and different time. So proud of this that generation and generation people left for today's UK.

Apart from the reason above, no one would like to ignore the factor of the advanced step UK had in the scientic and technological development. Basically, also no one denied the effect of industrial revolution on the acceleration of creativity and innovation people were inspired since then. Amoung them, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, James Clerk Maxwell all made a landmark exploration in their field, respectively; Stephen Hawking,  Henry Cavendish, Francis Crick also made a significant contribution to put a big step forward to the human's civilization. Nowadays, Univ. of Oxford and Univ. of Cambridge was taken as best universities in the top list of high school ranking ‘cause of the high academic level and outstanding teaching level. Even though the economy in the present UK is facing a reduced prospect of growth, it is still a hot place to attact people all around the world to receive the good education. So proud of this.

Another one which should be taken into consideration is attributed to the language--English. It is unlikely to a native English speaker to misunderstand each other in the conversation using English. By contast, people like me had to spend much time to practice the language and even by doing this still are confronted of some failure in the compulsury English exams. How to build conference in a talk with a native speaker is a big challenge for the majority. To be honest, a little bit nervous in my previous presentation especially in the part of Q&A. Sometimes very struggling in a group talk as they speak very fast and some 
Idioms and slang pop out occasionlly. Consciously or unconsciously, we have lost our confidence speaking English in front of them. They are so proud of this.

It should be noted that people here, from the beginning of a child, started to wear formal clothes, such as suits for male and silk stocking for female. The habit is quite beneficial for the growth and confidence-building since they keep the behavior consistantly over the life-period. Except the formal dressing, individual student in class is put at the centre of concentration and thinking of problem-solving solution independently. Most of time, teachers serve as
auxiliaries which are responsible for the inspiration and encouragement of their action. Most probably this is why students here have no heavy burden on the shoulder but the best performace in public and education. Should be a reflection of their confidence.



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