If you ever wonder what class you are, you're middle. The ones either side don't give a damn.
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Originally posted by IR35 Avoider View PostYes.
According to something I saw or read that I've mentioned here before, "class" has been around as a concept only since the middle of the 19th century. It replaced "rank", which was unchangeable.
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Originally posted by bogeyman View PostAgreed. If one is upper class, or working class, one always remains so, irrespective or career choice or income.
The middle classes offer far more mobility - up and down.
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AFAIK the Upper/Middle/Lower classification system was considered redundant at the end of the 1980s, when the A/B/C1/C2/D/E system was preferred.
I think things have moved on since then, but I am by no means an expert*
* by which I mean that I have done no CPD on the subject since University.
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Originally posted by Bagpuss View Postcan somone born into a poor background change class?
According to something I saw or read that I've mentioned here before, "class" has been around as a concept only since the middle of the 19th century. It replaced "rank", which was unchangeable.
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£995 and I can become landed gentry.
http://www.elitetitles.co.uk/seated/index.html
Lord and Lady Prawn of Swindon.
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Originally posted by Bagpuss View PostScenario 2
A child born into a working class family is adopted by an upper class family and is subject to all advantages that affords him, top public school etc, he will inherit the family title. Is he upper class? because he has inferior breeding he must still be working class right?
The child will be a thoroughgoing member of the toffs, although he or she might have a slightly brutish appearance.
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Originally posted by Bagpuss View PostScenario 2
A child born into a working class family is adopted by an upper class family and is subject to all advantages that affords him, top public school etc, he will inherit the family title. Is he upper class? because he has inferior breeding he must still be working class right?
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Originally posted by Lucy View PostIt has nothing to do with occupation.
Two girls I went to school with are both titled and one is a journo and the other an actor.
Still titled, still upper-class, nomatter what they do.
The middle classes offer far more mobility - up and down.
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Scenario 2
A child born into a working class family is adopted by an upper class family and is subject to all advantages that affords him, top public school etc, he will inherit the family title. Is he upper class? because he has inferior breeding he must still be working class right?
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Originally posted by Bagpuss View Post2 brothers born into a middle class family, ones becomes a doctor the other a car mechanic. Are they both now a different class?
Two girls I went to school with are both titled and one is a journo and the other an actor.
Still titled, still upper-class, nomatter what they do.
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Originally posted by Bagpuss View Post2 brothers born into a middle class family, ones becomes a doctor the other a car mechanic. Are they both now a different class?
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Scenario 1
2 brothers born into a middle class family, ones becomes a doctor the other a car mechanic. Are they both now a different class?
Scenario 2
A child born into a working class family is adopted by an upper class family and is subject to all advantages that affords him, top public school etc. Is he upper class? because he has inferior breeding he must still be working class right?Last edited by Bagpuss; 21 April 2008, 18:02.
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