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Class

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over 1 year ago

I was brought up to believe that we are divided socially into classes:

1.  Working class.

2.  Middle class.

3.  Aristocracy.

I also read decades ago that classes were less relevant and were disappearing.

I'm curious as to what others think so here are some questions:

1.  What class were you born into?

2.  What class are you now?

3.  Do you believe in 1 and 2?

4.  ie Do you think class exists?

5.  Do you think you can move class?

Also, without Googlerating, I'd be curious as to how these classes are defined.

I've tended to think of them as not only to do with our financial situation, but also to do with tastes, interests and education.

With regard to me, I was born working class and ?probably? still am.

Parents
  • over 1 year ago
    1. I was born working class
    2. Financially I'm middle class, but I don't have any of the understanding or experience of middle class life that you get if you're raised that way, so I feel like I'm culturally still working class- Joy the same way that a footballer has an income like the aristocracy but nothing in common with them, except I'm not that well off Joy
    3. I don't *believe* in them so much as acknowledging they exist. We have a class system in the UK, I don't like it much but it's still there.
    4. See above!
    5. To some extent, yes- you definitely can change class in the financial/income sense. I think that your personality is formed by the way you're brought up though- I'm never going to feel or fit in as middle class really because they behave differently and have had different experiences to me. I'm not sure I'll ever stop feeling like an alien around people who were raised in significantly more fortunate circumstances than I was.
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  • over 1 year ago
    1. I was born working class
    2. Financially I'm middle class, but I don't have any of the understanding or experience of middle class life that you get if you're raised that way, so I feel like I'm culturally still working class- Joy the same way that a footballer has an income like the aristocracy but nothing in common with them, except I'm not that well off Joy
    3. I don't *believe* in them so much as acknowledging they exist. We have a class system in the UK, I don't like it much but it's still there.
    4. See above!
    5. To some extent, yes- you definitely can change class in the financial/income sense. I think that your personality is formed by the way you're brought up though- I'm never going to feel or fit in as middle class really because they behave differently and have had different experiences to me. I'm not sure I'll ever stop feeling like an alien around people who were raised in significantly more fortunate circumstances than I was.
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  • over 1 year ago in reply to battybats
    battybats said:
    I'm not sure I'll ever stop feeling like an alien around people who were raised in significantly more fortunate circumstances than I was.

    That's true of me too.

    The thing I hugely lack, and a lot of middle class people seem to have an abundance of, is confidence.

    My lack (+ social anxiety) will also be to do with autism though, so it's complex.