My Experience of the British culture

First of all, when I though of Britain i though of old people drinking tea and eating fish and chips. I also had the mindset that people in Britain were mostly old, very proper and close minded. The media had influence me to believe England society was very royal like, and I didn't think i would see homeless people, or "ghetto" neighborhoods. Lastly I was under the impression that English people were friendly and help full. However, i was pleased to discover that people in Britain are completely different from what i had expected. In fact, I believe people in Britain are more open minded than people in the United States. I witnessed a few things that would make people stop and stare if it happened in the USA, but it seem like water under the bridge for people in London. Moreover, I didn't see any fish and chip places as well as tea shops in London, but there are all kinds of restaurants with very diverse food from India, China, to Mexico and Cuba. Unfortunately, from my own experience with people in London, they are not very friendly. In fact they are not very help full, for example, police men didn't help my group of friends and I help find the N-14 bus. Also, in the clubs people were not tolerant at all. I would say English people are in fact rude and unfriendly for the most part, in the end people who migrated from other countries were the ones who seemed to want to help tourist when they needed help.