November 2009 - "Do we need the class system in Britain?"
Does the fact we
Brits have got so used to being categorised as working, middle or
upper class allow the class system to continue? Australian
feminist, novelist and comedian, Kathy Lette, adds her perspective
to the debate...
When I first moved to London 20 years ago, I couldn't
believe that even letters could travel first or second-class. I
imagined that the first-class letters got a parasolled cocktail on
the way and maybe a movie. I was equally bemused at the way the
British upper class kept their dogs at home and sent their kids off
to high-class kennels called Eton and Harrow. Many of the
upper-class types I met seemed to have a Condescension Chromosome.
They'd obviously been at Oxford for so long they had ivy
growing up the backs of their legs. And what they had graduated in
was Advanced Smugness. Especially when it came to Australians.
I'd never looked up so many noses in my life. Even at people
shorter than me!
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