the corner office

British classism is a very strange thing. As a foreigner sometimes you notice it, and other times you go for ages without even realising it's there. But it's part of the culture, and it seems to be a really big thing to a lot of people.

I really like this quote by Shaffiq Mahmood, a commenter in response to this article:

As a child of immigrants I have not had anything to do with the British class system. Education, degree, hard work, aspirations to get on in life were the drivers - class or social position did not even come into it. In fact never even considered myself as part of anythin class or social group - I guess immigrants live a meta culture of get on with it.