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« Reply #1 on: September 11, 2015, 07:56:17 AM » |
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« Edited: September 11, 2015, 08:04:22 AM by 😜👣😾👽👩❤️💋👩👆🏿🌼🍀🐹🐴🐔🐍🐙👗💄 »
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Maybe this is a British thing, but class to me represents something just as immutable as race. Working-class people can get as rich as they want, just as Middle-class and upper-class people can become utterly destitute but one can never ever "change classes". At best, their children and grandchildren will be a different class, especially if they marry into a different social class.
And indeed the social discrimination from having a working-class accent is still pernicious and common-place. My mother, for example, painstakingly trained out her, err, "unsophisticated" West Country accent in favour of a more neutral London tone. Working-class people are viciously belittled in the media as negligent mothers, violent "chavs", angry yobbos, amoral hoodies and dependent on welfare. That is even among urban egalitarians who would condemn such stereotyping when applied to race or whatever.
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