Answer by OldPadawan for Are the Vogons based on English culture?
The wikipedia page gives many clues and references:The Vogons' behaviour turns out to be "full of very human—and specifically English—flaws and tendencies"1 to the point that Amanda Dillon considered...
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In Douglas Adam’s Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, the least pleasant race in the galaxy are known as Vogons and they are highly obedient to rules and bureaucratic. Is this supposed to be a satire of...
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As I have argued elsewhere, Adams didn't particularly depict or satirise national stereotypes; his satire was social observation which happened to be written by a British author for a British...
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