I'm pretty sure I couldn't sensibly be called working class now. I was when I left home at 16, though. I didn't know university was a realistic option until I got there aged 26. I am not sure that "academic" IS the job that most university faculty now do.
Not sure why so many public school wankers in my environment but I try to avoid them now. Although I have to say the ones in academia tend to be better behaved. 
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The thing I always notice is how devoid of British regional accents academia is.
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Yes! Depressing. They don't exist or get dropped. It's a sad fact. I only know one person who speaks MLE and some public school Scottish people who have basically a RP accent. Karl Friston has a Northern accent (check his "because" pronunciation) but I'm sure went to pub school.
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I'll have to get you to rate my accent at some point because it's a humungous mess.
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Where are you from?
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EVERYWHERE
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More specifically I grew up in Edinburgh but my mum has an aussie accent which has clearly rubbed off on me. I frequently get identified by random people as having an American accent which is entertaining as I was born there but lived there for about a year.
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People tell me I have a thick America accent, a VERY British accent, a Northern accent, and once or twice a Welsh accent!
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I also speak Greek however hard I try with a thick AF Cypriot accent. Even when I try not to use Cypriot Greek and try to speak Modern Greek... Mainlanders consider this either low class or nouveau riche. I get anti-Semitism and Islamophobia directed at me for it too.
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