I made a video recently about the role that status and culture plays in our lives every day.
And it recently struck me that a move my mother’s family made back in the 1940s must have been a seismic cultural and status shock at that time, moving from a big house and farm to a small cottage with no land.
My mother, and her sister, confirmed this to me yesterday at my mother’s 90th birthday party. Her older sister, when I brought up the topic of that move in the 1940s, immediately responded, ‘the shame, the shame, I remember it well’.
And my mother recalled an altercation in her kitchen between her father and the bailiffs.
It’s funny how you notice things as you get older and perhaps make a video about what you have noticed. And then you discover that it played out nearly 100 years ago in the kitchen of my mother’s house, not a stone’s throw from my own now.
You can check out the video I made about the role of status and culture here: