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Originally posted by SLO-BOB
So, of the two stories of which you relate tales of intolerance, one being while passing through the south as a hippie in the 70s, and the other actually living in your home country, which carries more weight- the anecdotal observations or the real life?
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Are you sure you are not my ex-wife? She was just as persistent.
Anyway, I'm German actually - but lived in London for a couple of years. Being non-British (a Hun no less) I was of course able to operate entirely outside of the constraints of the British class system. That said, I am certainly no apologist for the British class system. It is an anachronism - and an increasingly irrelevant anachronism at that.
There is of course the jobbo/hooligan phenomenon in parts of the UK - which I suppose is roughly comparable with the so-called white-trash/red-neck phenomenon in the southern US. I haven't though much about this to be honest. Poverty, social marginalization and ignorance seem to be hallmarks of both. Maybe someone else can comment on this.
But the boys in the picture above are sort of what I had in mind with my earlier remarks.
Actually when I was comparing the south to Europe earlier on - I was not even thinking of the UK. (No one from the continent thinks of the UK as being part of Europe.)