The program shows a good insight into the culture of the
people who have grown up and lives in a higher culture setting. The people who
are classed as posh like to think of themselves as part of a small elite group
that take part in social events of a similar nature. However, they are finding
that as that the middle class is becoming richer and rich people are moving to
England, their small elite group is becoming neither small nor elite. Within
the group they still perceive themselves as small, they also put across in the
magazine that they are "a group of upper class good looking people who
wear pretty clothes." The code of higher class people is apparently all in
the hand book 'Debrett's Guide to Etiquette and Modern Manners' which details the
way they think they should act. It includes; rules on social kissing, the use
of compliments and how to eat caviar.
Even though the higher culture have a view of the middle
class such as “The middle class becoming rich has destroyed taste in Britain."
they are increasingly trying to embrace popular culture, due to the struggle of
some people to spend well, in addition to having to maintain a large house. One even had part of his mansion be covered in graffiti to attract "punters" to get money to keep running his house. Within the program one of the writers within Tatler is sent to do a piece on
poundland, she is given a £15 budget to spend on the most impressive things in
the shop. In the shop she was amazed by things such as washing powder for £1,
which is "unheard of". She breaks the stereotype of higher class
people looking down on people who use shops such as poundland, yet there seems
to be an aspect of being entertained by the environment she's in. There's also
a change in the people in the upper class. In the program they interview a man
from Nigeria who's made large amounts of money before moving to London. When he
was driving in his Ferrari he was asked who he played for, the assumption being
that he was a football player. This shows the stereo type that most people have
in all the classes that those that have lots of money through means of their
own are posh and white.
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