Cultural Confusions in the UK

A student from China flew to the UK last year to broaden her horizons and experience working alongside some of Europe's finest researchers in the field of neuroscience. She has been able to hear about quite a few moments of cultural confusion over the last several months or so. Let me set the scene. Oh hello, how are you? I'm good thank you. How are you? Yes, yes I'm fine. Come on in, come on in. And it's in the next couple of moments of interaction that some cultural confusions can occur when being invited into a British person's home. So let's point them out.