A big part of social subordination and discrimination is to ascribe hyper-animality to other groups and use that as an excuse for subordinating them further.
In Sussex or in Somerset, however dull and clownish the typical inhabitant, he plainly belongs to an ancient order of things, represents an immemorial subordination.
Mental illness is also worse in more unequal countries, because mental illness is often triggered or exacerbated by issues to do with dominance and subordination, superiority and inferiority.