A french person of any colour or location is instantly stylish and metropolitan. It doesn't matter if you come from the slums of Paris or Marseille, or some 4 house village in the middle, you, as a french person represent fashion, food, cutting remarks and wine.
Germany: (dont mention the war) represent punctuality, lack of humour, process engineering. Artists are not german.
Italian: hand waving, sun glasses, food.
USA: crassness with a lack of class (which is subtly different from being working class)
Japanese: The person you are speaking to is from a long an famous line of culturally important families.
Now, those are the fun ones. This is where it gets a bit dicey, so please don't think I share these opinions. these are illustrative generalisations
Eastern europeans: Imagine you are a family that has the same name as the villiage you live near. You own an estate, its been in the family for years, and you have labourers that have also been with the family for years. You hold them in high esteem, but they are very much working class. THats how they are viewed. "useful working class"
Anyone from the indian subcontinent(pakistan, india, bangladesh) or looks like they are from there (see Ugandan expulsion) with a non received pronunciation accent, will generally be treated as working class. Its not universal, but its a strong assumption. Think small shop owner, pharmacist, etc etc etc.
North african: Good question not sure
west african: Instantly assume they are from an estate in lAAANDEN.
>Eastern europeans: Imagine you are a family that has the same name as the villiage you live near. You own an estate, its been in the family for years, and you have labourers that have also been with the family for years. You hold them in high esteem, but they are very much working class. THats how they are viewed. "useful working class"
There are, of course, two kinds of Eastern Europeans. There's the kind you mention, and there's the kind that own everything.
Luckily for the British, they're easy to differentiate based on the amount of fur accessories.
Example: our PM, a man of Indian heritage (though British) who speaks RP.
An Indian man with a really strong accent is going to be judged as being significantly lower status.
I think it'd be the same pretty much across the scale. Like imagining a Polish software developer vs a builder and the latter would probably have a rougher accent.
as a German guy who had the outside look in living in the UK for a while, not really. A lot of the markers of class that Brits are used to picking up just don't really apply.
That said I found it absolutely wild how much of a sixth sense Brits have to figure out where someone hails from. And also the extent to which people unlearn behaviors.
I spent the last 15 years in London and I strongly disagree. Not only are foreigners judged (perhaps subconsciously) on how British they can be, where you came from initially matters a great deal as well, which is why I worked on loosing my Eastern European accent.
That being said, over those 15 years, I was only openly discriminated against once.
You aren't assigned one, its just a thing people pick up on. Everywhere has it to some degree, for example "White trash" in the US compared to "Frat boys".
A french person of any colour or location is instantly stylish and metropolitan. It doesn't matter if you come from the slums of Paris or Marseille, or some 4 house village in the middle, you, as a french person represent fashion, food, cutting remarks and wine.
Germany: (dont mention the war) represent punctuality, lack of humour, process engineering. Artists are not german.
Italian: hand waving, sun glasses, food.
USA: crassness with a lack of class (which is subtly different from being working class)
Japanese: The person you are speaking to is from a long an famous line of culturally important families.
Now, those are the fun ones. This is where it gets a bit dicey, so please don't think I share these opinions. these are illustrative generalisations
Eastern europeans: Imagine you are a family that has the same name as the villiage you live near. You own an estate, its been in the family for years, and you have labourers that have also been with the family for years. You hold them in high esteem, but they are very much working class. THats how they are viewed. "useful working class"
Anyone from the indian subcontinent(pakistan, india, bangladesh) or looks like they are from there (see Ugandan expulsion) with a non received pronunciation accent, will generally be treated as working class. Its not universal, but its a strong assumption. Think small shop owner, pharmacist, etc etc etc.
North african: Good question not sure
west african: Instantly assume they are from an estate in lAAANDEN.
East african: Also not sure.