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Cultural Variety Is the Spice of Life

Michael Volpe | Posted 18.03.2013 | Home
Read More: UK Music, Snobbery, Robbie Williams, Opera, Eastenders, Elitism, UK TV, UK Culture, X Factor, Home News
Michael Volpe

Overwhelmingly I find that cultural silos exist more outside of the classical or operatic field. The charge of cultural elitism against people who love the classical arts is deeply ironic when I think of the many I speak to who partake of little more than Robbie Williams and X Factor.

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I Really Hate Genealogy Snobs!

Scott Phillips | Posted 01.03.2013 | UK Lifestyle
Read More: Genealogy, Snobbery, Family History, UK Lifestyle News
Scott Phillips

I love, truly love, genealogy and family history! I am a true-life example of my favorite genealogy quote "I used to have a life and then I started doing genealogy." Discovering your family history is awesome and something that everyone should try.

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Middle Class Poor? You and Me Both!

Mette Poynton | Posted 25.01.2013 | UK Lifestyle
Read More: Poor, Snobbery, Poverty, Middle Class Poverty, Keeping Up Appearances, Embarrassment, Middle Class, UK Lifestyle News
Mette Poynton

In the past year there have been a couple of stories in the press about families just like mine that have lost everything in the economic crisis and who now live a life in poverty while "putting on a brave face and pretending nothing has changed". Why pretend?

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Supermarket Snobbery

Alex Hawley | Posted 10.09.2011 | UK Entertainment
Read More: Class Divide, Tesco, Supermarkets, Sainsbury, Snobbery, UK Entertainment News
Alex Hawley

How is class defined in England today? Is it still all about who your parents are or were, which clubs you belong to? I can happily report that the class system is still alive and well. Such a line does still exist. In Angel, Islington this line is easy to spot - you can even touch it. It's the wall between Waitrose and Sainsbury's.

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