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if you really don't want to know don't read this reply, but if I told you a North-Eastern, teetotalling Anglo Protestant with a learned Mid-Atlantic accent is p
by Barrin92 4y ago
if you really don't want to know don't read this reply, but if I told you a North-Eastern, teetotalling Anglo Protestant with a learned Mid-Atlantic accent is part of America's very own Brahmin caste while someone with a thick southern drawl isn't you're going to be mad at me for spilling the beans?
The US has its own very fine-calibrated class system from blue-blood to redneck that pretty much everyone is aware of.
- quadrifoliate 4y agoYeah, I'm Indian origin and don't give a shit about caste (and honestly, find it pretty hard to tell because I never ask), but it astonishes me to hear Americans drone on about how this is unbelievable and totally not something they'd ever do. Meanwhile, the same people seem to have no problem automatically discerning that someone living on the Upper East Side in NYC is high class and treating them several times better than someone who comes from Random Town, Kansas.