[g] iven the uncritical identification
of a community with an entire
past, communalism finds it easier to appropriate tradition because it inserts its message into existing, unspoken biases or prejudices,
stereotypical images of self and others, and unsubstantiated assumptions
of society.
With the advent
of new technology, discrimination laws, increasing specialisation among barristers and larger, more competitive chambers, the barristers» clerk role has moved on, with the
stereotypical Victorian barrow - boy
image left firmly in the
past.