This attitude in British culture really pisses me off, you should be proud of your education/intellect, all this bad boy shit that if you can read you're obviously out of touch with the "street" makes my blood boil
When I was a kid, the local kids from the council houses nearby used to pick on us because of the way we spoke, because they knew they could kick our arse and rob us when they wanted... I'm sure the same thing happens to greater or lesser degrees everywhere - "oooh your so posh, aren't you?"
...then you develop a complex... then you try and emulate them... and so on.
I guess if you're borderline (for want of a better phrase) you tip towards the street side, rather than growing up. But I think this middleclass complex and guilt rides all the way up and carries on through life. It then gets translated into the media and across society in general.
A good eg is the number of people who bang on about being working class or having working class roots, when it's perfectly clear they are just as much part of the middle class establishment and everyone else in John Lewis.
The only thing I wonder is where the working class intellectual has gone? My guess would be they got an education, a good job and moved into the middle classes, because they took full advantage of an upwardly mobile society, leaving only those who couldn't get out for whatever reason. Or maybe they were just a socialist myth/minority to start with.
When I was a kid, the local kids from the council houses nearby used to pick on us because of the way we spoke, because they knew they could kick our arse and rob us when they wanted... I'm sure the same thing happens to greater or lesser degrees everywhere - "oooh your so posh, aren't you?"
...then you develop a complex... then you try and emulate them... and so on.
I guess if you're borderline (for want of a better phrase) you tip towards the street side, rather than growing up. But I think this middleclass complex and guilt rides all the way up and carries on through life. It then gets translated into the media and across society in general.
A good eg is the number of people who bang on about being working class or having working class roots, when it's perfectly clear they are just as much part of the middle class establishment and everyone else in John Lewis.
The only thing I wonder is where the working class intellectual has gone? My guess would be they got an education, a good job and moved into the middle classes, because they took full advantage of an upwardly mobile society, leaving only those who couldn't get out for whatever reason. Or maybe they were just a socialist myth/minority to start with.