I sort of understand it, but haven't internalized what it means to be part of a... people. I'm a bit like Groucho Marks, I don't think I'd want to be a member of a club that would let me in!
I heard the Danish footballer from the old days of Liverpool, he's settled in England, talking about what Merseyside was like, according to Jan Mølby, who's working class Danish, people in Liverpool are 'scousers' first, and secondly English.
I was brought up a Catholic, but I'm not religious. My grandmother devided the world into two groups. Good Catholics, and the rest. She wasn't keen on Protestants at all. She self-identified as 'Irish' even though she was born in England, a bit like Shane Mcgowan.
Fry seems to identify as an English gentleman toff, like a figure from PG Woodhouse, Bertie Wooster, but with Jeeve's brainpower.
Fry is a dilettante and has done very well for himself, playing the English class system for all it's worth. For all his work as a comic, he seems to have taken it, the class culture, very seriouosly and been handsomely rewarded for his efforts. Would one ever want to be that integrated into a system like that? It's like an actor confusing the role he's playing with his own identity.
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