I didn’t really associate the stereotype of bad teeth with lower class British people. AFAIK the stereotype comes from even rich British aristocrats supposedly having bad dental care.
That said, you are right that applying that stereotype to specific people without first checking if they’re upper class is more likely to hit lower class people, especially with how culture has shifted since the stereotype was first formed.
You know MAGA face? That’s kind of how British people see American teeth: incredibly fake. It’s a lot of pain, discomfort, and money to conform to a an unnatural standard solely for apperance.
British teeth aren’t rotting and decaying, they just haven’t spent years forcibly rearranging the bones in their face.
This does result in classisim in America, because poor families can’t afford to rearrange their face bones, and not having cosmetically “perfect” teeth is looked down on.
Photo of the guy for comparison
With teeth like that how could he be anything but British?
In fairness though Laurence Fishburne is American and I can’t think of any other famous examples
Why is teeth shaming okay? Try to stop being a classist asshole.
I didn’t really associate the stereotype of bad teeth with lower class British people. AFAIK the stereotype comes from even rich British aristocrats supposedly having bad dental care.
That said, you are right that applying that stereotype to specific people without first checking if they’re upper class is more likely to hit lower class people, especially with how culture has shifted since the stereotype was first formed.
So your classism is more about the USA being better than the British then being about rich and poor. 👌
That’s not classism, it’s more nationalism.
It’s okay to be classist about British people they have literal classes and should in fact be mocked for it
Absolutely wild that they have a class system and most don’t even choose something interesting like warlock
It’s on our birth certificates and everything.
As an archivist in our related field, I can confirm that you are a true master
Thank you! I’m a big fan of your work mapping fart cloud migrations.
Your how to be a troll rubric is really failing you on this one
We don’t associate this with class, we think even your rich have fucked up teeth.
You know MAGA face? That’s kind of how British people see American teeth: incredibly fake. It’s a lot of pain, discomfort, and money to conform to a an unnatural standard solely for apperance.
British teeth aren’t rotting and decaying, they just haven’t spent years forcibly rearranging the bones in their face.
This does result in classisim in America, because poor families can’t afford to rearrange their face bones, and not having cosmetically “perfect” teeth is looked down on.
Don’t get me started on the hideousness of veneers. Talk about just turning your smile right off. So many beautiful faces ruined :(
TIL
Mate, I’m from New Zealand.
And that invalidates anything I said?
Who said they were bad? That’s on you. I love a snagle tooth 😍 so many people straighten their teeth unnecessarily. It removes all their character
Teeth like 🏴
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I mean…
They’re not playing with nothing, but they really leaned into drawing his features in an especially antisemitic way