You can understand why Orwell as a “beggarly najnędzniejszą with” find “

director of Oxford Center for Social Research, is a trained anthropologist. Her book is the result of field test on a race living in the island situated not far from Europe. Over the years, Fox has lived among the inhabitants of that tribe, exploring its prejudices, rituals and rites of passage Godowej. In contrast to many other anthropologists, however, Fox did not have to take an exotic trip, I tested it to race well known to us English.

But do we really know them so well? We all have stereotypical images in the head – and a rigid flegmatycznego gentleman or objectionable kibola of color face in umalowaną his beloved team. Do these images are arranged in a coherent whole – especially when realize that kibol may be that the gentleman that recreation on holiday?

Fox has conducted field studies fair. Wpadała to passers-by examining how often will apologize for his indiscretion simulated. Climbed on the roofs, binoculars to observe the behavior of the English in their home gardens. In knajpach, instead of the mess, podsłuchiwała talks about the weather and noted who drinks what and how to retain.

From the book emerges as a fascinating portrait of the greatest British obsession, that is the class membership. Snobbery is not only a phenomenon known Englishmen (although it is not they invented that word), but the fear of the British Isles before the dream of zdeklasowaniem and promotion of the level reaches the top level of difficult to understand someone from the outside.

Free from fear are only two classes involved extreme opposite position. All things are lawful arystokratom, because they have been issued what kompromitowałoby member of middle class, is treated as a harmless eccentricity. All the working class may be that – trawestując Marx – there is nothing to lose except for sugar in tea.

You can understand why Orwell as a “beggarly najnędzniejszą with” find “an average middle-class.” Its members are torn between the opportunities and prestige of the higher middle class, even if their leaders, sometimes they zapraszających hunting or showing niechcenia pictures from his house in Tuscany, and the constant fear that any detail of their surroundings – even the introduction of the family to neighboring MISSING property – will lose their lower jaw in the middle class.

I thought that “the average middle-class” Orwell invented solely for the purpose of his satyr such as “viva aspidistra, but Fox will ensure that this is the term used in the islands to this day – not enough Englishmen triad aristocracy class – middle class – working class, in the extract of the additional sub-classes.