If someone is very upper-class, you have a stereotype of him which is probably true. If someone has a working-class accent, you have no idea who you're talking to.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I don't understand why the accent you speak in has to indicate what level of intellect you have.
Upper class to me means you are either born into wealth or you're Royalty.
I'm from the South, where if you walk down the street and there's somebody behind you talking with a Southern accent, you can't tell whether it's a black or a white person.
The working classes in England were always sentimental, and the Irish and Scots and Welsh. The upper-class English are the stiff-upper-lipped ones. And the middle class. They're the ones who are crippled emotionally because they can't move up, and they're desperate not to move down.
For somebody in my neighborhood to aspire or revere a person from the upper class, that is the most ugly and pathetic behavior you could exhibit.
So often in English fiction, people are either upper-class twits, or else they're knockabouts, less than human.
Americans always ask how much I love my accent, and I don't get that - I think I sound like a school teacher.
The American cinema in general always made stories about working-class people; the British rarely did. Any person with my working-class background would be a villain or a comic cipher, usually badly played, and with a rotten accent. There weren't a lot of guys in England for me to look up to.
You're looking at a middle-class guy. I am who I am.
I have a class prejudice - against the upper class, which is foolish.