Lashings and lashings of cringeworthy xenophobia

[ailbhe]

Well, I just read six Malory Towers books in about ten minutes flat, and thoroughly enjoyed them₁₅₅, and hated them intensely. They are rollicking good reads (I like a good rollick) but my word they are frightfully up themselves.

Still. They were jolly rollicking.

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[gioiaverdi.livejournal.com]

And of course there's Claudine, who's fench and therefore doesn't understand that it's wrong to ... whatever the English girls would have instilled into their bones.

[taimatsu]

Is it cheating or snitching or something?

The Chalet School has a *little* bit of 'these foreign kids don't understand Proper Behaviour until they've been at school a little while' but it also shows some British characters assuming all the non-British characters don't know how to behave and then everyone else being horrified at them, so it's not so bad on that front.