Larry David knew an audience was not his if they didn’t get his joke and Spanish and Caesar using the informal “Tu” form. I can’t help but think if you’re throwing Shakespeare and polylinguism in your comedy it’s implicitly a class signifier. Spanish speakers notwithstanding.
Music is the obvious non-obvious one. It never occurred to me that my liking the loud heavy metal of Black Sabbath might be a class signifier until much later on in life. Of course they were themselves factory workers from Birmingham, but I suspect that if I had of gone to a more elite school then I’d probably be expected to listen to Art Rock or Prog Rock?
Lemmy of Motorhead remarked about his beloved Beatles:
The Rolling Stones were the mummy’s boys—they were all college students from the outskirts of London. … The Stones made great records, but they were always shit on stage, whereas the Beatles were the gear. …They were from Liverpool … a hard, sea-farin’ town, all these dockers and sailors around all the time who would beat the piss out of you if you so much as winked at them
Keeping in the UK, apparently there is a divide between Rugby Union against both Rugby League and Soccer.
...rugby union has always been the way that the English ruling classes have lorded it over those uncouth, working-class games...[Rugby] League was a physical, exciting and highly skilled sport played by working men from industrial northern towns. Tackling rugby union’s superiority complex—David Bowden, Spiked
But elitism hasn’t disappeared altogether. It merely expresses itself in a coded form, whether through Little Britain-style chav-baiting or else in the current ‘rugby is better than football [i.e.Soccer]’ debate. And when I say ‘coded’, you don’t need to be Roland Barthes to deconstruct it. For football, read uncouth working class scum. And that’s why I’ll choose football, warts and all, any day over rugby union. A dirty tackle on the working classes, - Duleep Allirajah Spiked
I suspect NASCAR vs. Indy Car is a similar divide in American Motorsport. In Australia V8Supercars and Formula One have a similar class dynamic.
Speaking of F1, can any Germans confirm that Michael Schumacher gave off a much more working class vibe than Sebastian Vettel?
Larry David knew an audience was not his if they didn’t get his joke and Spanish and Caesar using the informal “Tu” form. I can’t help but think if you’re throwing Shakespeare and polylinguism in your comedy it’s implicitly a class signifier. Spanish speakers notwithstanding.
Music is the obvious non-obvious one.
It never occurred to me that my liking the loud heavy metal of Black Sabbath might be a class signifier until much later on in life. Of course they were themselves factory workers from Birmingham, but I suspect that if I had of gone to a more elite school then I’d probably be expected to listen to Art Rock or Prog Rock?
Lemmy of Motorhead remarked about his beloved Beatles:
Keeping in the UK, apparently there is a divide between Rugby Union against both Rugby League and Soccer.
I suspect NASCAR vs. Indy Car is a similar divide in American Motorsport. In Australia V8Supercars and Formula One have a similar class dynamic.
Speaking of F1, can any Germans confirm that Michael Schumacher gave off a much more working class vibe than Sebastian Vettel?