It's kind of amazing ppl arguing for devaluing the votes of millions of people in CA and NY bc "tech billionaires" and "media CEOs"
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It reminds me of the unexamibed prejudice Americans used to hold that literally everybody in Britain was some sort of landed nobility
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Orwell's bemusement meeting Americans: "We hate Brits bc of your posh accents and manners and fox hunts" "But... we also hate those ppl"
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"I don't understand. If you hate all Englishmen for having big houses with servants who do you think the servants are"
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(Which led to the bizarrely misinformed American stereotype of the "English butler" w the RP accent who was educated at Eton and Cambridge)
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Geoffrey on Fresh Prince was a self-IDed "working class" Englishman who graduated from Cambridge and went to the US to work as a servant
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I'll allow the generous possibility that there may be one real person in all of history who that actually happened to
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I think Caine's version of Alfred was the first big pop-culture butler in America who didn't talk like the Queen
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I need to find that comedy piece about how in the late 1990s Hollywood made the shocking scientific discovery of an English working class
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"Their accent is similar but without the H. They do not have fox hunts, nor prolonged engagements or torrid affairs"
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"Instead their primary pastimes involve 'footie', 'going down to the pub w/ mates' and 'persevering against incredible odds'"
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Anyway Middle America made a reverse transition between thinking of NY as a literal prison island populated by thugs to One Big Wall Street
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