Myths & Facts After having spent over three months living & working in Bristol, I’m now absolutely certain there are some myths about the English that are not true at all or, at least, not accurate enough. However, there are some others mentioned in an interesting book I’m currently reading, which is called “Watching the English”, that are completely recognisible once you’ve been dealing with some English people. I find truly interesting trying to guess that point in which some fact becomes a myth and viceversa in real life. When you try to know and discover a culture it is, in my opinion, amusing to check if what you thought it was a myth is a real fact taking place at practically every single corner or, if on the contrary, what you thought it was going to be a real fact happening all the time is, in fact, a myth. Anyway, I think both of them –myths and facts- are equally worthy to know if you really want to embrace that culture you are trying to dip into.