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Originally Posted by angus58
I agree that my lifestyle is far easier than that of my parents, and I look around my home at possessions that would have been in the realms of fantasy when I was growing up.
However, I still consider myself working class because of those values of self sufficiency, hard work and independence that were instilled in me and which I have passed on to my own children. In fact I would be offended if I were to be called middle class, perhaps because in my own experience I have found that those who are eager to be social climbers often forget where they've come from and adopt pretentious attitudes and behaviours that are designed to try and make others feel inferior or invoke envy.
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Oh... I know quite a few people who 'think' they are middle class when in fact they are nothing (as you say) but pretentious, egotistical, snobbish gits - with their roots firmly planted in the working class. They simply can't accept that they
are working class and often have an air of inverted snobbery - looking down their noses at the very 'class' that they belong to.