people still consider nouveaux-rich as gaudy and uncultivated. The extent to which this is still true is complicated. We could go back and forth trading examp

people still consider nouveaux-rich as gaudy and uncultivated. The extent to which this is still true is complicated. We could go back and forth trading examples of where it is, and is not. My feeling is that the jazz age was the beginning (not strictly the beginning, but a speeding up) of the end of that attitude. It's hard to call one person gauche when it's stylish for another to own a print of a Campbells soup can. Modern-day haute couture might include a tattered tee shirt emblazened with the word "Urine". There's probably a Youtube video somewhere of Prince William wearing Crocs and "dabbing". There is little agreement over what "is done" these days. there's a very real classism in both the US and (even more so) the UK for example Sure. Actually, if you include racism, the US might best the UK. However, while classism exists, it is also taboo. People regard and treat others differently because of class, but they seldom admit it (even to themselves!). So the case still is, in both countries, that the majority profess to hold egalitarian views.