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Exactly this. The more north in UK you come from, the less class status you have by default. I am honestly surprised that BBC needed a survey for that.
by TheLoafOfBread 4y ago
Exactly this. The more north in UK you come from, the less class status you have by default. I am honestly surprised that BBC needed a survey for that.
- arethuza 4y ago"The more north in UK you come from, the less class status you have by default." As someone who comes from the North East of Scotland I'm not sure I'd agree with that... then again I might be blissfully unaware of my lowly status in life.
- was_a_dev 4y agoMy partner and I both grew up in Yorkshire, and she has a strong Yorkshire accent. She trained to be a doctor in Nottingham, where she was typically undermined by other doctors and patients due to her accent and the percieved professionalism that is lacking with that accent. We now live in the North East, and she hasn't had a repeated experience from anyone local - just those with a more 'southernly' accent. The respect she's given is night and day in difference. In conversation with her colleagues, I asked if the inverse was true for them. Did their southern accent cause a barrier with the patients in the North East? None of her colleagues could comprehend the question, let alone could provide a clear answer.
- toyg 4y ago> I am honestly surprised that BBC needed a survey for that. Obviously they don't, what they need is to occasionally justify activity to redress the well-known imbalance. One might argue this need is at its highest, in a climate where the last 5 prime ministers are Oxford graduates.