英国酒吧文化(英文)

The Pub Culture in Britain

If someone truly wants to understand the local culture of Britain, the most effective way is step into those bars. British people like to tell foreigners - "If you haven't been to a pub, you haven't been to Britain". In fact it really like they said, the bar culture is absolutely essential for the UK as a part of social life. In Britain, the bars are known as the “pub”. This word can date back to The Victorian Period. At that time, the bar were called "public house" and the word--“pub” is short for it. Almost every British people love stay in the pub, even those merchants who work in the business district of London. However, in residential pubs, those people are mostly local residents. So it’s difficult for outsiders to get into the atmosphere there, then not to speak of tourists. Therefore, the British pub is divided into two parts, for tourists and for residents.

It would be interesting to know that there is no formal line-up in the pub and those amazing bar staff are skilled at knowing whose turn it is. You are permitted to try to attract attention, but there are rules about how to do this. Do not call out tap coins on the table, snap finger or wave like a drowning swimmer. And no matter what you do, do not ring the bell hanging behind the counter——this is used by the landlord to tell you the closing time. The key thing is to catch the bar worker's eyes. You could also hold an empty glass or some money, but do not wave them about. Do adopt an expectant, hopeful, even slightly anxious facial expression. If

you 1ook too contented and complacent, the bar staff may assume you are already being served.

When speaking of tips, you should never offer the bar staff a cash tip. The correct behavior is to offer them a drink. Pubs are pride of their equal atmosphere. A tip in cash would be a reminder of their service role, but offer them a drink is show friendly to them.

Except the fascinating pub culture, it should be noticed that the rising violence crime in society, especially youth crime rate increasing year by year, the British government and the considerable number of people think this is because Britain has too many bars and a lot of British men get into a habit of drinking. Many young people can buy drinks which mixed with alcohol. So the British government is trying to raise beer taxes or some other way to reduce the number of British drinking.

I have to say, at this point I am not very agree with them. I think that the existence of the bar is not the main reason of young crime rate increased, which is caused by many reasons. The most important thing is that, once the government adopted a repressive policy, I wonder these traditional British pub where is the most strong local cultural lives, as they have been closed down, the British traditional culture heritage will be affected or not. I think if the bar culture does not exist anymore, it will be a great loss to the traditional culture of the United Kingdom.