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From: rajeev@sftri.UUCP (S.Rajeev)
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Subject: Re: 'Jewel', British India, and us
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Date: Sun, 24-Mar-85 13:12:15 EST
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> > I meant two things here: one, the class system among the British that
> > denies opportunity to those who were born to the wrong parents, went to the
> > wrong school, have the wrong accent, and so on. I have British friends who
> > are resigned to never being 'somebody' because of their accents.
> 
> I do not want to spawn a lengthy and inappropriate discussion in this group
> about British cultural quirks; merely to observe that the above remarks are,
> today, over simplistic and that the "friends" referred to should listen more
> closely to the plethora of undisguised regional accents in all seats of
> power and influence in British life.
> 
> Charlie Lambert @ the Death Star, Illinois.

What the British do today is their own affair; I erred in using the present
tense -- I should have made it clear that I was talking about 1945.
A request: let us stop discussing 'Jewel' -- more than enough has
been said about it.
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