What do they think they are doing /english/ (WinWord)

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What do they think they are doing.
A survey on customs in the EU and English-speaking countries
that are scarcely ever written about in school manuals
(an essay by Vassili Savine,10 B form, school №1276)
What most people remember ,what they think they know of England, its culture and its customs and traditions usually isn't more than that- the essential 5-o'clock-tea (now actually abolished by the major part of the British), a typical English breakfast (cones with butter and oats porridge that, as many Englishmen claim, no one ever eats in their country, except for the Scottish maybe),and, of course, "the Trafalgar Square with the Nelson column in the center " that, according to one of the English manuals, a Russian schoolboy should remember and like most in London.They might also remember All Saint's Day(the Halloween ),Big Ben etc. But many relatively new customs and cultural activities in UK, America and the rest of Europe that we probably are totally unaware of, seem to me far more interesting than those mentioned in Britain or the plain data on eating roasted turkey in America on Thanksgiving day-for example, the Speaker's Corner at one of the entrances in Hyde Park ought to be considered to be the embodiment of European democracy, the embodiment of free speaking and civil rights. The speakers have to raise on a stool which they bring to the Corner with them, and then they may attract the visitors' attention with speeches of any kind- from expression of negative altitude to the government or the present political system to bringing forward their idea of love and God. As those who most actively back the idea of Speaker's corner claim,it is something opposite to "opinion polls" that they call "static phenomena",while the opinions spoken out in Speaker's Corner are "a dynamic reflection of mass psychology" as it shows all the nihilistic doubts in those who said "yes" or "no" during the "opinions polls". Amongst those who have attended meetings here, are some

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