Babies These Days...

[Cal33]

10. Yes, the masses do consider and refer to themselves as "English," but how far does

this "Englishness" really go? Could it be a kept-up front that Englishmen pay lip service to,
mainly to convince themselves that they are, first and foremost, English - and this
suggests that there is a strong tie of unity. I personally think that this sense of unity
does appear during war-time, for instance, when Englishmen do unite to fight the enemy,
and for their own existence.

Outside of that in everyday life, the majority of Englishmen practically live in communities,
separated by class. The walls may not be not that evident, but they are there. A well-
educated Englishman in another forum has just recently written that anyone who stepped
outside of those boundaries would be quickly reminded of where he did not belong and be
put "in his place." It was an embarrassment to him that the English, in this day and age,
still were living in lthis fashion. Class exists in Continental Europe also, but to a lesser degree.

From my point of view, I believe that in varying degrees class still exists everywhere in this
world of ours.