Encountering Privileged Backgrounds: Stereotypes vs Reality

The chapter discusses the experience of encountering people from privileged backgrounds and how it differs from the stereotypes portrayed in movies. The speaker reflects on their own experience of making friends with individuals who attended private schools and highlights how these exceptions are often used to downplay the negative effects of the British class system. They also mention the sense of apathy and self-assuredness exhibited by some privileged students in university, contrasting it with their own studiousness. Overall, they explore the subtle forms of class disparity encountered in academia.