"Estuary English, baseball caps And we learn to be ashamed before we walk Of the way we look and the way we talk" Excuse me, chum. I was born and brought up in south London and Kent and speak what you so patronisingly call 'Estuary English' (I've even been known to wear a baseball cap on occasion). That's MY culture - my 'roots', if you like. And no, despite the best efforts of a generation of schoolteachers, I'm not ashamed of it. It's no less valid than Devon.
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