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If someone is very upper-class, you have a stereotype of him which is probably true. If someone has a working-class accent, you have no idea who you're talking to.
When I first left drama school, I was too posh for the working-class parts and not posh enough for the upper-class roles. You know what England is like: the gradations of accent and how you're judged by them are still there. I discovered that to get a break you have to lie about where you're from.
In every conversation I've had - with housewives in Mumbai, with middle-class people, upper-class, in the slums - everyone says there is an underlying consciousness of karma. That people believe in karma - that what you're putting out is going to come back. If I do something to you, the energy of it is going to come back to me in the future.
I believe in the law. I think we have a great system of justice. But I do think that system of justice has been corrupted by racism and classism. I think it's difficult for 'poor people' - poor white people, brown people - to be treated fairly before the law in the same way that upper-class people are.
I was born in Paris in 1950. I had a strict upper-class Catholic education but I never really fitted in the system and revolted against it quite early.
I was raised as an upper-class WASP in New England, and there was this old tradition there that everyone would simply be guided into the right way after Ivy League college and onward and upward. And it rejected me, I rejected it, and I ended up as a kind of refugee, really.
'Downton Abbey' about upper-class posh people: of course it is.
White middle- and upper-class men have a longer journey to go than many people.
I'm a big John Steinbeck fan. Cormac McCarthy. I've always loved the stories of regular people. Mark Twain, too. When you look back at some of the epic writers of our country's history, very rarely do you find upper-class royalty. We seem to delve into the struggle of life and the labor of life much more frequently.
We don't know how Cleopatra spent her days, but we do know how other Hellenistic monarchs spent their days. There has been a great amount of scholarship in the last 30 years about education in the Hellenistic world and women in the Hellenistic world. We now know how an upper-class woman was educated in her day.
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Bobos in Paradise: The New
Upper Class and How They Got There
In his bestselling work of "comic sociology," David Brooks coins a new word, Bobo, to describe today's upper class -- those who have wed the bourgeois world of capitalist enterprise to the hippie values of the bohemian counterculture.
2
Privilege, Power, and Place: The Geography of the American ...
An analysis of where the American upper classes live and take their vacations.
Stephen Richard Higley, 1995
An obsession with the right schools, families, social clubs, and skin complexion. This is the world of the black upper class and the focus of the first book written about the black elite by a member of this hard-to-penetrate group.
Lawrence Otis Graham, 2009
4
Philadelphia Gentlemen: The Making of a National
Upper Class
This proper Philadelphia story starts with the city's golden age at the close of the eighteenth century.
Edward Digby Baltzell, 1989
5
Above Stairs: Social Life in
Upper-
class Victoria, 1843-1918
In Above Stairs, get to know the the Douglases, the Pembertons, the Skinners, the Creases, the O'Reillys, the Trutches, the Rithets and the Barnards.
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The Old
Upper Class - Britain's Aristocracy
Seminar paper from the year 1998 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 2.0 (B), University of Osnabruck (Anglistics), 14 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: In ...
Some scholars use the terms upper class and elite interchangeably, whereas
others argue that the latter is an even more select subgroup (or "overclass") that
commands even greater power and wealth. Identifying the upper class illustrates
...
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Down to Earth Sociology: 14th Edition: Introductory ...
They vitally affect our ideas of the world—and of our place in it. FROM A CLASS
PERSPECTIVE , the American upper class ex- hibits a class solidarity derived
from the group awareness that they share a common fate. They consider one ...
9
Betty Ann Tittle Tattle Reproduces the
Upper Class: Gender ...
This paper examines the role that elite women played in class reproduction in Kansas City between 1924-1934 through an examination of 40 issues of the elite women's magazine, The Independent.
10
An Utterly Impartial History of Britain: Or 2000 Years of ...
Examines how England's peculiar class system was established by some snobby French nobles whose posh descendents still have wine cellars and second homes in the Dordogne.
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Upper class rail passengers not moving to airlines: Eco Survey
Contrary to the popular belief, a raise in rail fares has not led upper-class domestic travellers to opt for airlines, though domestic airlines offered heavy discounts, ... «Business Standard, 二月 15»
New money tycoons 'have reduced Sloane Ranger upper-class set …
comments. They were once the future of Britain's upper-class; well-dressed, well-educated young socialites who were perfectly schooled in etiquette and charm. «Daily Mail, 二月 15»
For US Orthodox, 'upper-class' incomes often not enough
WASHINGTON (Washington Jewish Week via JTA) – For Orthodox Jews in the United States, President Barack Obama's proposed tax reforms present a ... «The Times of Israel, 二月 15»
Super Bowl for the Rich: Upper-Class 91, Middle-Class 9
Just 10% of Americans own 91 percent of the nation's stocks and mutual funds, according to economist Edward Wolff (Table 7). Most of the remainder is held by ... «AlterNet, 一月 15»
What It's Really Like to Be Rich
That stress is closely correlated with financial hardship: While just 7 percent of upper-class adults say they struggled to pay their rent or mortgage in the last year, ... «U.S. News & World Report, 九月 12»
