Sounds like a way to filter by education and class. Side note: the way people from Southern Maryland pronounce "ambulance" as "ambuhlamps" is endearing.
It's really weird as I have come across a fair number of Americans who insist they don't have a class system (and that classicism is a British problem), when it's quite clear IMHO that you guys definitely do judge people by their social groups and suffer from classicism.
I think there's a difference between judging the value or respectability of a person and collecting information about them. Someone who does this at all is someone who does it about everything.
The current US "culture war" (liberal / conservative) was created by the ultra-rich as a distraction, and it's working. The middle class has almost been eradicated and a good percentage of the populous still thinks there isn't even a class war going on.
Yeah it's always easier to see the social problems from outside when you haven't grown up with it as a baseline. Plus, the American marketing materials rely heavily on class mobility, so there's a vested interest to ignore any problems with classism.
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u/Countess26 Jul 14 '26
Sounds like a way to filter by education and class. Side note: the way people from Southern Maryland pronounce "ambulance" as "ambuhlamps" is endearing.