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Re:Physical attractiveness bias in the legal system (2017) by willvarfar on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @05:16AM (#24048146)
I have had the pleasure of bamboozling Americans with my ‘posh’ English accent and own style, making them make all kinds of wrong guesses about my level of privilege and background. Of course my accent isn’t what an English person would consider posh, my schooling was normal and my “style” is actually clueless tinged with apathy. Snap judgments can be really wrong.
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Re:Physical attractiveness bias in the legal system (2017) by distant_hat on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @07:47AM (#24048973)
There's a much greater leeway given to people from a different background, which is why moving to another country is a great way to reset your class and immigrants often make massive jumps in class compared to where they come from.
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Re:Physical attractiveness bias in the legal system (2017) by someguydave on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @08:42AM (#24049330)
Except Americans in Europe don’t seem to have that advantage.
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