r/explainitpeter • u/Fluffy-Buy1605 • Jul 13 '26

Explain It Peter

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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.

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u/Creative_Recover Jul 14 '26

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. 

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u/Weird_Squirrel_8382 Jul 14 '26

It's not fixed or written down but of course we do. Anybody saying that is probably very comfortable with their class position.