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Crimson Dynamo 21-09-2015 04:00 PM

What class do you belong to?
 
Eg.

Untouchable
Working
Lower-middle
Middle
Upper-middle
Upper

And so forth


So one can address people properly

Niamh. 21-09-2015 04:02 PM

I have no idea what the difference between Working, Lower Middle and Middle would be? :think:

MTVN 21-09-2015 04:05 PM

Self-proclaimed intelligentsia

Niamh. 21-09-2015 04:09 PM

Ultra Upper

kirklancaster 21-09-2015 04:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MTVN (Post 8163651)
Self-proclaimed intelligentsia

:laugh: Genuinely made me howl.

kirklancaster 21-09-2015 04:12 PM

Working class, but vereeee cultured and refined. :laugh:

Jason. 21-09-2015 04:13 PM

Do people even associate themselves by social class anymore? :shrug:

Ashley. 21-09-2015 04:14 PM

I am the monarch

kirklancaster 21-09-2015 04:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ashley. (Post 8163681)
I am the monarch

:laugh:

kirklancaster 21-09-2015 04:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BB6 (Post 8163679)
Do people even associate themselves by social class anymore? :shrug:

Apparently - in Scotland anyway.

Livia 21-09-2015 04:21 PM

The ruling class.

Actually, I was born working class and that's what I will always consider myself to be.

Kizzy 21-09-2015 04:33 PM

Is there a **** on the sole of your shoe class?
From Sir Len Hutton to me it's been a slippery slope :joker:

JoshBB 21-09-2015 04:36 PM

Probably working class

rubymoo 21-09-2015 04:48 PM

The cool class:dazzler:

Born working, so will always be working:douf:

kirklancaster 21-09-2015 04:53 PM

From those on Minimum Wage to Donald Trump and Oprah - We are ALL working Class.

But REAL class has nothing to do with 'Blue Blood' OR Money.

Kizzy 21-09-2015 05:01 PM

That's why the lady is a tramp... :joker:

rubymoo 21-09-2015 05:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kizzy (Post 8163822)
That's why the lady is a tramp... :joker:

:joker:

DemolitionRed 22-09-2015 08:09 PM

I'm working class because I work.

Its interesting how people perceive class. I have a few American friends who are quite certain they are upper class.

Niamh. 22-09-2015 08:27 PM

I honestlt don't understand how the class system works, I think it's more of a British thing

T* 22-09-2015 08:31 PM

Upper-middle

DemolitionRed 22-09-2015 09:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Niamh. (Post 8168173)
I honestlt don't understand how the class system works, I think it's more of a British thing

This would be my definition.

Old working class was the labour force of Britain. The blue collar workers who rented their homes. They were the workforce that made life work for the middle classes.

Today's working class can be professionals and home owners. Working class is how they view themselves to be because they often started from more humble beginnings.

The old middle class were the white collar workers, professionals and home owners.

Todays middle class is subjective. Its more of an aspirational thing. A blue collar worker who has made good, afforded a mortgage, a nice car and takes a holiday abroad each year will often think of themselves as being middle class. Being owning class doesn't make you middle class like it used to. Plenty of middle class families in modern Britain opt to rent rather than buy.

Upper class means you have had an expensive education, don't have to work to lead a comfortable lifestyle. You will be a land owner, probably related to the aristocracy even royalty and you will never be burdened with having to think about something as vulgar as money.

You can't buy your way into being upper class, though you can marry into it. If a working class or middle class person makes a fortune, lives in a mansion, has a butler, a nanny and a chauffeur, that does not make that person upper class.

Niamh. 22-09-2015 09:29 PM

Thanks DR


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