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Who Do You Think You Are?
2004 · TV series · documentary · 60 min episodes · 23 seasons
A British genealogy documentary series in which celebrities trace their ancestry, discovering secrets and surprises from their past.
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There’s an idiom “Who do you think you are?” which is used when someone is doing something they shouldn’t or acting above their position or something like that. It’s also the name of a BBC TV show about genealogy. The headline is probably a play on that
Watch a few episodes of the UK Who Do You Think You Are tv show and what comes across in many of these people's ancestral stories is that some people had it all (and it didn't always work out for them), women had no right to own a damn thing, and that many, many people suffered and died because there was no welfare state in Europe pre WWII. The lives of ordinary people were often awful and governed by pure chance. The welfare state is one of the greatest achievements of human-kind.