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by b800h 1161 days ago
Via a class system. US movies imply you have the same thing over there.
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Every language group has a hierarchy of accents, often roughly corresponding to wealth. There is usually a prestige accent used by the wealthy, and which the upper classes mimic. And everyone looks down on rural people, marked by their accent.

It's worse in some places than others but it's practically universal.

Yes. It's not unlike how people assume someone with a rural/southern US accent is dumb.
Accent based class system and discrimination is rampant everywhere: UK, Italy, Romania, Austria, etc.