Miranda Hart on Call the Midwife: 'There isn’t much comedy delivering a baby' - Telegraph
The TV drama, Call the Midwife, depicts exactly the kind of culture I grew up in. The division of labor along gender lines, the moral authority of women and the simultaneously naive and stoic attitudes to life were part of what I was used to.
The humor is the same as that of the Rhodesian culture and the nurses uniforms look a lot like our high school summer attire.
You can imagine why suddenly moving from an early 1950s (rural) culture to a culture of the mid-1980s was appalling for me. I experienced it as a sudden descent into the ugly on almost all levels.*
Some people would try to make out that I had psychological issues with regard to making this adjustment. But really, they were largely cultural concerns.
That I am married to someone more than a couple of decades older is also indicative of how much an old-fashioned attitude appeals to me more than a contemporary, materialist disposition.
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* And, I must add, apes punishing me for not liking aspects of Western culture does not make me like them more.
The TV drama, Call the Midwife, depicts exactly the kind of culture I grew up in. The division of labor along gender lines, the moral authority of women and the simultaneously naive and stoic attitudes to life were part of what I was used to.
The humor is the same as that of the Rhodesian culture and the nurses uniforms look a lot like our high school summer attire.
You can imagine why suddenly moving from an early 1950s (rural) culture to a culture of the mid-1980s was appalling for me. I experienced it as a sudden descent into the ugly on almost all levels.*
Some people would try to make out that I had psychological issues with regard to making this adjustment. But really, they were largely cultural concerns.
That I am married to someone more than a couple of decades older is also indicative of how much an old-fashioned attitude appeals to me more than a contemporary, materialist disposition.
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* And, I must add, apes punishing me for not liking aspects of Western culture does not make me like them more.
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