The film's prologue touts the British
village home to average
middle class families, but it's quite clear the Miniver family are part of the modern
upper class; with a substantial disposable income, a housemaid, and a cook, they also maintain British reserve to sometimes irrational, and rather precious degrees.
Missionization By the time European explorers arrived in the Santa Barbara Channel, there were some 21
villages on the three largest islands of San Miguel, Santa Rosa and Santa Cruz, with highly developed social hierarchies that featured an
upper class of chiefs, shamans, boat builders, and artisans, a
middle class of workers, fisherman, and hunters, and a lower
class of the poor and outcast.