Quote: Leevil @ September 13, 2007, 12:54 AMThat's because all Americans are common. *looks down nose*
Quote: Mick Dolan @ September 13, 2007, 12:40 AMAmericans don't usually begrudge the upper classes because in American culture because it's usually based on their hard work and spirit (protestant work ethic).
That's what I don't quite get about people's attitudes to the upper classes here. I can understand a lot of opinions on individual persons, but not the upper class as a whole. They have more money, land, whatever because they - or their ancestors - earned it in some way. It didn't just kind of magic out of nowhere!