http://www.bbcamerica.com/mind-the-gap/2012/07/05/10-ways-to-make-friends-and-influence-people-in-the-u-s/ A Brit's Guide to Surviving America Tue, 21 May 2013 01:33:00 -0400 hourly 1 http://www.bbcamerica.com/mind-the-gap/2012/07/05/10-ways-to-make-friends-and-influence-people-in-the-u-s/#comment-2175 EnglishRose Sat, 11 Aug 2012 16:28:00 +0000 http://www.bbcamerica.com/mind-the-gap/?p=592#comment-2175 Love this article. Feeling so homesick reading about the Olypmics everywhere and gleaning a few cherished frames of British action on NBC (aka Not-the-BbC!). Point 6 is fantastic advice: “There will be days when you’ll want to surround yourself with comforting
British things. When this happens, find BBC Radio 4 on iPlayer, take
deep breaths near an open jar of marmite…” – Back in a mo!

]]> http://www.bbcamerica.com/mind-the-gap/2012/07/05/10-ways-to-make-friends-and-influence-people-in-the-u-s/#comment-2174 EnglishRose Sat, 11 Aug 2012 16:25:00 +0000 http://www.bbcamerica.com/mind-the-gap/?p=592#comment-2174 So true!!

]]> http://www.bbcamerica.com/mind-the-gap/2012/07/05/10-ways-to-make-friends-and-influence-people-in-the-u-s/#comment-2173 EnglishRose Sat, 11 Aug 2012 16:24:00 +0000 http://www.bbcamerica.com/mind-the-gap/?p=592#comment-2173 I think technically it’s only an anchor baby if you arrive pregnant and give birth here.

]]> http://www.bbcamerica.com/mind-the-gap/2012/07/05/10-ways-to-make-friends-and-influence-people-in-the-u-s/#comment-2045 BDudley Thu, 09 Aug 2012 17:08:00 +0000 http://www.bbcamerica.com/mind-the-gap/?p=592#comment-2045 Here’s a suggestion that will horrify many people from the UK, but in the US, going to church is something even normal people do. If you have a British accent, go to some artsy evensong or somesuch at an Episcopal church and you’ll be swarmed.

]]> http://www.bbcamerica.com/mind-the-gap/2012/07/05/10-ways-to-make-friends-and-influence-people-in-the-u-s/#comment-1641 Allie Wed, 11 Jul 2012 18:42:17 +0000 http://www.bbcamerica.com/mind-the-gap/?p=592#comment-1641 @Anne- Really? Are we really going into immigration politics here and now? Oi…

]]> http://www.bbcamerica.com/mind-the-gap/2012/07/05/10-ways-to-make-friends-and-influence-people-in-the-u-s/#comment-1593 Anne Thu, 05 Jul 2012 22:16:13 +0000 http://www.bbcamerica.com/mind-the-gap/?p=592#comment-1593 Suggestion no. 10 is otherwise known as an ‘anchor’ baby because it gives the parent an automatic right to stay in the US if the baby is born there.

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