(To be clear, I do not think this is a good effect - it’s rather snobby!)
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I went to a fairly posh secondary school in Britain that was none the less a state school with a mixed population. A lasting effect this has had on me (apparent since I moved to America) is my vague sense of horror at the gauche people who can’t distinguish wealth from class.
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Wealth = class in the US, or close to it, I would think. I understand the difference, but do you see it playing the same role in the US and Britain?
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I think it very different in the uk, and that’s part of why I find the American system so distasteful. Tasteless parvenus marching round in polo shirts carrying tiki torches think of themselves as reviving the glory of western civ. Not the worst of their sins, but it’s so tacky!
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I with 100% reliability misread every working-class-born leftist intellectual I meet as progeny of landed aristocracy until corrected
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I ain’t an aristocrat! I think family class status hard to define, obvs working class parents but our Standing improved during my early life so by time I’m ~12ish things are pretty good for us, solidly lower middle class. So I just say I’m now middle class. I’m a fancy professor!
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Ah no it was mixed, literal actual aristocrats going to the same school as kids from the estate in Peckham. Mostly middle class o agree, but I’ll credit them where due and I do think they brought together quite a wide variety of folk.
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