Personally I like to think of myself as classless. Having recently become ill my income is now low. By education and interests I suppose I'd be classified as middle class. In day to day life I've always seemed to have the ability to get on with people from all kinds of backgrounds and have worked as a hospital porter, merchant seaman and college lecturer among other things.
2006-10-23 04:13:44 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Paul T - I did have a working class upbringing. My father was a shipyard worker who was killed in an industrial accident when I was 18 months old. I was brought up on a council housing estate in Northen England and expelled from school when I was 15. I was once also a shop steward and know all about class struggle. So for most of my life I was working class.
2006-10-23 04:34:00 · update #1
your pete - I hope I'm one of the first too. If we can't laugh with someone or at ourselves then life would be very bleak indeed.
2006-10-23 05:15:38 · update #2
It's only middle class people who like to think of themselves as 'classless'
If you'd had a working class upbringing you'd know you were working class.
2006-10-23 04:25:20 · answer #1 · answered by marineboy63 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yes class does exist in the UK, however it has less to do with money and more to do with knowledge and social standing. For instance, accent has a lot to do with how someone is perceived by other people. If you have an accent which is devoid of swear words, slang and local dialect then you are probably perceived to be more middle class that someone who is hard to understand and uses all of the above. They would be perceived as working class no matter how much money they have. Another factor is dress. If you wear "chav" clothes i.e. large hoop earrings, baseball caps, latest trainers, hoodie tops then you are more likely to be perceived as working class than if you wear a suit or smart top and trousers. On the other side, really posh people rarely dress in expensive clothes, preferring the dark blue suit, tweed or cord they have had for years. Often it is the received pronounciation which marks these people out, along with their seeming inability to cut their hair or pronounce the letter R.
2006-10-23 11:27:32 · answer #2 · answered by Carrie S 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
For a lot of people, class is still a big thing for them, mostly the people who think they are upper class because of their materialistic approach to life, for me I feel classless at times, I had to give up my job a good few years ago because of a serious accident, there are days when I feel that I'm surplus to requirements simply because I'm on benefits, but because my husband has a good job, we are both well educated and before my accident I was a PA to a director, we own our house and have no debt I suppose some would see me as a different class, I personally don't give a hoot about class, I prefer people for whom they are and not what they have.
2006-10-23 11:21:45 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
We're getting to be a classless society. I mean, the prime minister's got no class, for a start!
2006-10-23 11:16:43 · answer #4 · answered by Avondrow 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
There are 2 classes..those who like a laugh and perhaps the odd drink. and then there are the ..... "Other miserable lot".
Hope you are the first.
2006-10-23 11:50:14 · answer #5 · answered by your pete 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
no, i don't think so. Only the snobs like the royals probably believe in that rubbish
2006-10-23 11:16:48 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
we are all the same classes belong in the school,
2006-10-23 11:28:42 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋