“The American culture is coming in and it massively influences everything at the moment. They compete with each other. If you look at how they dress, people arrive in lectures as if they are going on a night out.”
One student referenced a well-known student newspaper article published last year about how St Andrews had turned into the Scottish Upper East Side, which said: “Our beloved Scottish town is day by day turning into a microcosm of Manhattan’s elite world..."
@NMBA It's an interesting article.
Although the classism has always been a huge part of both St Andrews and Edinburgh University life.
When I was at uni in Aberdeen, my university was a redbrick university. So we were aware of the differences between the working class students at our universities and those "elite" institutions.
Back in the early 2000s we knew the posh kids went to those. I fenced at university, so I'd see some of those students at university.