• Maeve@kbin.earth
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    5 months ago

    You had me at

    The “English Gentleman” stereotype is not at all a person who does the right thing, it’s a person who projects the right impression, something altogether different.

    Tbf, this is the “genteel” of every Western nation, afaict, to varying degrees.

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      5 months ago

      It’s quite possibly that kind of character was also present in the upper classes of several countries in Europe.

      But in the Present Day in Europe as far I know as only the English still widelly celebrate that kind of personna and protray it as a core English thing.