Every country shares things {#blank#}1{#/blank#} common: we value family and laughter, cherish food and health, and celebrate large {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(festival) and traditions. Yet within the similar things we share, there are unique parts of each country. One of characteristics that are famous of British people {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(be) their sense of humor, particularly self-mockery (自嘲). This is a type of humor that criticizes and undervalues oneself. For example, a fat person may joke: “I am on a new sea food diet. If I see food, I eat it.” This is {#blank#}4{#/blank#} well-known self-mockery joke. It's difficult why self-mockery {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(tie) to the British people. But every nation's sense of humor comes from its culture and history. It could come from another British characteristic, modesty, {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(mean) not talking openly about your skills. This seems to be something that is similar to people in China, {#blank#}7{#/blank#} modesty plays a big part in daily life. It also acts as a defense of our self-respect by playing down our skills, this can {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(less) the chance of people criticizing us. Another possible reason is {#blank#}9{#/blank#} the British people do not take themselves too {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(serious).

    Recently, with the increasing popularity of social websites and personal online blogs, the potentially harmful practice of oversharing {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (become) much more common. Oversharing is the act of sharing too much information, or TMI,{#blank#}2{#/blank#} people who are not necessarily prepared or qualified to receive it. Telling a co-worker you don't want a piece of birthday cake may be acceptable, {#blank#}3{#/blank#} adding the fact that you're on a diet to lose 50 pounds would be oversharing. There are some {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (person) facts others may not need or want to know.

    Some oversharing is the result of a poorly {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (develop) social filter (过滤器) or “shut up button”. Different people may have different ideas over {#blank#}6{#/blank#}constitutes (构成) oversharing or TMI, so they may not realize they are making others feel {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (comfortable).

    Other times the oversharing may be an attempt {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (break) the ice socially. By sharing a few embarrassing {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (moment) with strangers, the oversharer lets others know it's okay to let down their guards and be more open themselves.

    While some oversharing may be OK,{#blank#}10{#/blank#} is generally a good idea to develop a sense of propriety (得体) in order to avoid sharing far too much information.

    Many Americans put away their white clothes on Labor Day {#blank#}1{#/blank#} do not wear them again until the following May.

    One reason for the clothing custom relates to the season. In the United States, the {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (month) between June and September are summer. The weather is usually hot in northeastern cities. Many people there historically wore light-colored clothing in the summertime {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (keep) cool.

    Judith Martin is an expert on manners, {#blank#}4{#/blank#} spoke to Time Magazine about the history of wearing white in summer. She said Americans in the 1800s and early 1900s wore formal clothes all year long. Wearing white clothes in the summertime may make people more {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (comfort). Then, in about the 1930s, wearing white clothes in the summertime became fashionable. That is because some wealthy Americans went on vacation {#blank#}6{#/blank#} weeks or months in the summer. The white clothes then became connected with ease, {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (beautiful) and money. But at the end of summer, they put those white clothes away and {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (return) to their lives in the city, {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (wear) darker and heavier clothes. {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (eventual), not wearing white clothes after Labor Day became a bit of a fashion rule.