“ In all countries the poor are more national than the rich, but the English working class are outstanding in their abhorrence of foreign habits. ”
 George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius (1941). copy citation

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“In the working class patriotism is profound, but it is unconscious. The working man’s heart does not leap when he sees a Union Jack. But the famous “insularity” and “xenophobia” of the English is far stronger in the working class than in the bourgeoisie. In all countries the poor are more national than the rich, but the English working class are outstanding in their abhorrence of foreign habits. Even when they are obliged to live abroad for years they refuse either to accustom themselves to foreign food or to learn foreign languages. Nearly every Englishman of working-class origin considers it effeminate to pronounce a foreign word correctly.” source