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Truly would depend on the city or area. I've travelled to many different cities where I seemed to have been the sole racial outcast for miles and miles around. Some places, the ppl were amazingly kind and welcoming, other places were unabashedly racist and hostile.
As much as people don't like to say it's about race.......in many cases it seems to be for whites. I have grown up in majority white areas and majority black/hispanic areas. It was my opinion in the past that whites or anybody for that matter was put off by the high crime in black neighborhoods.......not the "blackness"...that is understandable everybody wants to be safe.
My opinions have changed recently. I live in a diverse new neighborhood of college educated professionals. Home prices are in the $400K - $500K range. Which is solid middle class in Texas. In our gated subdivision we noticed the number minority home owners were almost equal to the number of white home owners. I was curious if this meant anything to other neighbors so I asked. A black neighbor said he noticed white neighbors being less friendly.........something you cant quantify but it is felt. My white next door neighbor became non existent, and hardly spoke to me. Not a bad guy, but I could tell something is not right for him. The feeling of being a minority does not sit well with a lot of whites. Maybe I'm okay with being a minority because that's how its always been.
The neighborhood is comprised of mostly college educated professional families trying to live the American dream. You would think that the things we have in common would be more important. I am American to the bone. It mind blowing that race is so important....... but it has always been.
Good post. I agree with the perspective you have come to as well...
An Anglophile is someone with a love of and fondness for England and its culture/people. It has nothing to do with being middle class or white American culture or whites globally.
Yes... and no.
I grew up in Concord, MA. A predominately white middle class town (and very liberal). And... I spend my childhood watching PBS TV. Programs like NOVA, but especially Masterpiece Theatre, Mystery!, and Monty Python. Consequently, I was exposed to a LOT of great British Culture. In addition, my mother learned her English in Australia. And the English I speak is her version of the Queen's English aka Business English. She would tell me that slang was only to be used in the company of my friends, but at dinnertime with my parents, at school and for work, I should only speak "proper (formal) English. And to this this day, my English speaking style is very formal and not with a Boston accent.
I also love British rock music. Most of my favorite musicians are from England.
IMO if someone of middle class America wants to excel in academia, they would look towards the British culture and people for inspiration. Especially in literature, but in all disciplines.
Of the African nationals who do so well in our universities, or business majors from India, they all speak (business) English very well and with a British accent. So globally, the British standard of English gets more respect than American English.
So globally, the British standard of English gets more respect than American English.
My brother grew up in England, so he had an accent. He finally got rid of his English accent after his military service.
I personally love American English, English accent does nothing for me. But hey, I can only speak for myself anyway, I don't speak for everybody else. I actually like southern accent, sounds like music to my ears. lol
I grew up in Newport Beach, orange county in California. There are a lot of people who are the "high class" kind. I am not one of them obviously. lol I love country boys and country music. My favorites are Charlie Rich and Hank Snow.
To be perfectly honest, it would depend on the socioeconomic class of the people that I would be living with.
The same here. I would pick a wealthy black neighborhood over a poor white neighborhood any day of the week.
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