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 as nominal     2    of the    state still     3    in the highly    developed capitalist country.
    The national anthem was, is and will be in the     4    1,000 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    virtual 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!