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Conservatism refers to the acceptance of anything familiar and refusal of anything strange or foreign.There are numerous facts that 1 the conservatism of the Englishmen.
The monarchy(君主制)as nominal(名义上的) 2 of the state still 3 in the highly developed capitalist country.
The national anthem was, is and will be in the 4 1000 years the old “God Save the King,(or Queen)”.
English judges as usual wear long wigs in law courts, as 5 in many films shot in Hong Kong.(As a colony of the British Empire, Hong Kong was once 6 to adopt the British legal system.)
7 the fact that the feudal class is a 8 of only history significance, noble titles are given to distinguished persons, who would 9 the titles as something of the greatest honor.
Many Englishmen still spend lots of money 10 dummy(虚设的)fireplaces that are of no
11 at all, although their rooms are 12 by gas or electric fire.They find it difficult to say 13 to the past.
As the first country to 14 the industrial revolution, Britain refused to 15 decimal(十进位)system until 1971.Pence, shilling, pound and inch, foot, yard…all these are hard to be 16 .
English people are always suspicious of any new plans of the government.Today they are still 17 of the Europe integration plan, thus they are not willing to 18 pound to be integrated into Euro Dollars.
Never talk about any kind of 19 to an Englishman, he would surely be 20 and keep away from you!