Stereotype
The archetypal traditional High Tory would be a gentleman, a fervent monarchist (some were Jacobites, particularly prior to George III and the death of the agnatic Stuart line), most likely a High Church Anglican but in some cases traditionalist Catholic in religion, a classically-educated believer in high culture with a suspicion and dislike of contemporary popular culture, cool towards the idea of democracy and populism, a devoted Anglophile (if Canadian rather than British), and leaning rather more towards anti-Americanism than to pro-Americanism in foreign policy (America being seen as the ultimate proponent of democracy and popular culture, a country without rooted traditions, long history, monarchy or aristocracy).
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“All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words: the stereotype is a political fact, the major figure of ideology.”
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