As a rational, liberal-minded sort of bloke, he considers the English class structure to be a piece of antiquated and retrogressive nonsense.
Then there's the inevitable English class distinction between Wimbledon Village, a restaurant-strewn, posh section a short walk from the club, and less-expensive Southfields, at the bottom of a very steep hill.
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And Leigh captures, without sentimentality or condescension, the grave and stoical spirit of the English working class.
All the themes of upper-class English life are here: sex and incest, class, inequality and the enduring tussle over whether the best path to success is through hard work or effortless charisma.
In fact, the students themselves translated the class for free from English into 44 languages.
The teacher, an American expat, spoke to the class solely in English, almost unheard-of in French schools where foreign languages are taught in French by French natives, and we were all handed a phonebook-sized block of paper, full of lists of verbs and pronouns, useful tips, press clips (largely from The Economist) and other things to learn.
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Only a handful of Indian politicians - mostly the upper class and English-speaking - use social media to communicate.
In the less cossetted standard-class carriages, the traditional English apprehension of foreigners is more in evidence.
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The Van Dyck Shirleys capture the enchantment with exoticism that seems almost as emblematic of upper-class English life as the portraits of lords and dogs on view.
The Congress will welcome the change, the allies will submit and Mr Gandhi, emboldened by the inevitable upper-class English media hype, will call an early general election in November, predicts Mr Akbar.
Ten years ago--the young girl studied hard, learned English, and finished high school in the top of her class.
His replacement of the traditional ruling class with a foreign aristocracy also caused much resentment among the English nobility.
Zurich, the most populous of the cantons, and the heart of the Swiss banking world, plans to start compulsory English at an early age, maybe even from the first class, the six-plus lot.
Mastering the clipped tones of upper middle class English was a crucial career move for ITN's Trevor McDonald.
On a recent day in Lopez's third-grade English class in Miami, the students learned the four points of the compass by reading and acting out a poem.
"It's going to be a little bit different in a couple of years, waking up in the morning and sitting in a freshman English class rather than going to my computer workstation and hacking code all day, " Brockman said.
The country now boasts legions of thriving small businesses and a fair number of world-class ones whose English-speaking bosses network confidently with the global elite.
He had been the English department chair, and taught one freshman class on Southern literature.
Which is why Katherine Ye Zi, an English-language teacher, selected the class of Internet trailblazers from the different ethnic groups.
Boyle, who was accused of dumbing down Radio 4, attended a comprehensive school in Glasgow before gaining a first class degree in English at the University of Strathclyde, and then completing an MA on Charles Dickens.
Likewise, the team says that Henry, who won a World Cup with France and scored 175 goals for Arsenal in the English Premier League, has a world-class pedigree that has helped sell tickets, attract new players and bring both the club and the league a level of credibility that few other players on the planet could provide.
In a teacher training college in remote Syktyvkar, the unannounced arrival of a British journalist in an English class provokes a lively and well-informed discussion of Rudyard Kipling's novels.
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The lead characters are two proper middle-class English ladies, played by Josie Lawrence and Miranda Richardson, who, partly to get away from their husbands, pool their resources to rent an Italian villa called San Salvatore for a month.
The museum even runs a weekly Cantonese opera appreciation class in English on Saturday afternoons, which features a performance by a local troupe.
Then, as the class was winding down, Bakhtiari posed a question in English.
Joyce, the first batsman to 1, 000 runs this season in English first-class cricket, also believes that Namibia and Scotland are also in with a great chance to take the honours.
The class continues for about an hour with students repeating and learning greetings in English.
Prince Abdullah hopes the new plan will have a similar effect on Saudi soccer as the creation of the Premier League in 1992 had on the English game, leading to better broadcast rights, growing fan bases, top-class players and investment in stadiums and other facilities.
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In an English-language class, Mohammad Bakhtiari stood in front of his pupils and discussed the architecture of the language: sentence structure, the formation of paragraphs, the conjugation of verbs.
Even the term "gay" can be considered to apply only to an educated, English-speaking, wealthier class here.
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