>Firstly, there are many exceptions. For example, Aravis in CS Lewis's The Horse and His Boy is neither white nor remotely quiet - she is aristocratic. Lewis,

>Firstly, there are many exceptions. For example, Aravis in CS Lewis's The Horse and His Boy is neither white nor remotely quiet - she is aristocratic. Lewis, being the genius that we're all acquainted with, discovered a subtler truth... that being aristocratic is best of all. Obvious to the aristocrats reading my comment, I think, but Lewis wasn't even landed gentry.