Thats too extreme, there is an unspoken culture in the UK, for example the saying, stiff upper lip, its a reference to keep quiet and carry on, like those war time propaganda posters and tee shirts you now see adorning many things and people.
I've been in a unique position to see some of that mentality, army cadets doing military baths on other teenagers that carries on into the military, beastings of sorts.
A violent profession like the military or police have a lord of the flies fraternity culture. The officers get their own mess, ironically Royal Marine officers have to be physically fitter than a normal Royal Marine and operate on less sleep, ie first up, last to bed, but going to a private school will help enormously for officer selection across the military, this is one place where snobbery and not meritocracy is order of the day. Now considering the unhindered privilege the military commands I would say the upper classes do abuse their rank, but this is also a culture created by private school attendance, more so boarding than day school.
Just look at the massacre of Amritsar [1] that mentality still exists in some circles today, I cant really speak highly of Eton of all places, but then I got to witness some military personnel when the first black person took place in the trooping of the colour, and the bile that was coming of the mouths would put any racist to shame!
I've been in a unique position to see some of that mentality, army cadets doing military baths on other teenagers that carries on into the military, beastings of sorts.
A violent profession like the military or police have a lord of the flies fraternity culture. The officers get their own mess, ironically Royal Marine officers have to be physically fitter than a normal Royal Marine and operate on less sleep, ie first up, last to bed, but going to a private school will help enormously for officer selection across the military, this is one place where snobbery and not meritocracy is order of the day. Now considering the unhindered privilege the military commands I would say the upper classes do abuse their rank, but this is also a culture created by private school attendance, more so boarding than day school.
Just look at the massacre of Amritsar [1] that mentality still exists in some circles today, I cant really speak highly of Eton of all places, but then I got to witness some military personnel when the first black person took place in the trooping of the colour, and the bile that was coming of the mouths would put any racist to shame!
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jallianwala_Bagh_massacre