Aristo Fetishism in Downton Abbey

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14. I am interested in the class tensions and divisions--I wasn't born in a time or country

where there was a servant class who were treated like amusing, sometimes naughty or wayward little children, to be managed by the aristocrats. The interpersonal relationships among members of the SAME class (the romances, etc.) within the show don't really interest me as much. It's still amazing to me that only a hundred years ago, the servants weren't really employees or staff, but seen as truly lesser beings, treated with patronizing kindness if they were lucky.