Split by Ben Tippet;

Author:Ben Tippet;
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781786805966
Publisher: Book Network Int'l Limited trading as NBN International (NBNi)

A cup of tea

In Britain it is often said that you can tell someone’s class by how they drink a cup of tea. Even Danny Dyer, as he moves from East End ‘geezer’ to household fame, seems to understand his changing class position by the tea he drinks, ‘I don’t know what’s happened to me. I’ve got a bit more sophisticated in my old age. I like a bit of jasmine tea. I love it.’

A rigid distinction that says class is just about economics or culture is clearly a false binary. The distinction between the two is blurred – economics influences culture and cultural factors can help reproduce inequalities over time. That said, treating it as a purely cultural phenomenon makes it seem like a weird, British quirk, rather than a powerful economic force that shapes the lives of everyone on the globe. Class is about global power and the vast economic inequalities it produces, rather than about manufactured, gendered and outdated images that judge people by how they take their tea. Much more interesting questions to ask are: who makes the tea, under what conditions and who ultimately is getting rich off of it?

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