Lefebvre wrote:
The English were famous for their breeding, upper class, stiff upper lip.
But who were at Williams wedding: Beckham (a football player), E. John (idiot poof and popsinger), other riff raff. And why did he marry a lower class silly woman?
What's the matter with the English??
I have news for you. They've always been "vulgar". You've been mislead by the fact that English society has, until recently, always been represented by the upper class in the media. Look up "poverty in Victorian England". Those dirt caked people in rags are the people that most of the English population descends from. Not that they were bad people, just poor. English society used to be highly class stratified to the extent that there were laws governing what types of clothes and colors one could wear depending on their class. Today, "classism" in England is akin to racism in the US. There used to be an English show that used to touch on class stratification in England called "Keeping Up Appearances". The main character, Hyacinth lives in an white collar neighborhood and ius quite concerned with appearances and social status. However she comes from a poor, working class family, and the living situation and culture of her sisters is quite different from that of her own.