London vs New York
America is a country divided by race, Britain by class. Or, as Don Thompson writes in The $12 Million Stuffed Shark about how high-end art auctions work:
"In New York, traditional auction humor holds that lots are carried in by the only black person in the room. In London they are carried in by the only impoverished person."
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