Recently, I was watching the Gosford Park commentary, and something Julian Ffellows said is stuck in my head. He was talking about why he made the American a vegetarian. he said that the food in those great houses is usually pretty terrible, and that it is traditionally considered ill bred to be fussy about one's food. One eats whatever horrible thing is on one's plate without complaint.
This means that regardless of my manners, I am rude by English aristocratic standards because I have allergies, that my friends with celiac are also rude by those standards. I am fascinated by this idea that something over which one has no control, something we are born with makes us all automatically ill mannered by that standard.
I was born, not only common, but rude. O.o
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