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> Hmmm, are you British? Perhaps you could give some examples? > We used to tease someone at work who had a posh accent > because we felt she was fair game be
by HatchedLake721 4y ago
> Hmmm, are you British? Perhaps you could give some examples?
> We used to tease someone at work who had a posh accent
> because we felt she was fair game being from a privileged background
Isn't this British classism?
"We felt she's from a different social class, so we teased her because of that".
I remember when shopping with my wife who just moved to the UK, a retail worker was chatting with us and she was explaining to us something along the lines "Oh you know like when you go shopping in Tesco... or if you're posh then it's Waitrose.".
Isn't this subtle, unconscious British classism too, that says who you are based on where you shop?
- toyg 4y agoIt isn't subtle at all. My partner recently asked me what the equivalent layering of supermarkets would be in Italy, and I just couldn't - because there isn't such a layering there (or rather, it's layered by different criteria, i.e. political and regional differences).