[kj] When Goths Cry...

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> Let's not confuse Middle Class with Nouveau Riche either.


I don't think I have so far... Jo, please add to that debate, I'm sick of screaming at a wall...

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UK Northerners are quite self effacive - particularly if you come from 
Hull - the nation's pits.
Let's not confuse Middle Class with Nouveau Riche either.



>I think that tall poppy thing sounds familar to UK gatherers too...

>

> We're known for being self-effacing. I wonder why...

>

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>

> Yeah of course we have the same thing but it's just not something we

> emphasize I suppose, it came as a surprise to me when someone described my

> class, it was something I'd never really considered.

>

> NZ and Aussie have this syndrome that we call 'tall poppy syndrome', which

> I'm sure exists elsewhere, but seems particularly pronounced down this end

> of the planet. It's a critical attack on anyone who sticks their head up

> above the masses, people get absolutely sledged at times. Back in the day

> one of our best cricketers, Martin Crowe, used to get shit because he

> preferred wine to beer sometimes...that kind of thing.

>

> In the 'States it seems perfectly acceptible to say "I'm really good at x"

> if that's the case, which seems quite healthy to me. But in NZ you are

> encouraged to keep your trap shut and talk down all of your achievements

> so as to fit in with the rest of the lads. It's changing, it's not

> all-encompassing, but it's still there and it's a stupid way to treat

> achievement and aspiration and difference.

>

> And yeah, we have inequalities in wealth similar to other western

> nations...the whole deal. Ghettoes, drugs, blah blah.

>

>>

>>>

>>> We don't have ANY class in NZ mate!

>> ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

>>

>> I thought that the Maori have had to fight for respect and a decent wage

>> and

>> some people have really posh houses - isn't there some class issue going

>> one

>> there?

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