Would you call the British royal family posh?
Alice and Rob talk about the British class system, and discuss whether posh people are discriminated against.
This week's question:
Which member of the pop group The Spice Girls was nicknamed Posh Spice? Was it:
a) Emma Bunton
b) Geri Halliwell
c) Victoria Adams
Listen out for the answer at the end of the programme!
Listen
Posh People
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Vocabulary
- categorised
divided into sets or groups
- persecuted
treated worse than other people (maybe because of your race, religion or lifestyle)
- elegant
pleasing and graceful in appearance
- perceived
believed
- discrimination
treating a person or a group of people worse than others
- an open season
a period of time when the usual rules don't apply
- minorities
small groups in society
- unrepresentative
here, not typical of a group of people or viewpoint
- (the) establishment
(the) government, authorities, and influential people in society (e.g. the media)
