Upper, middle, or working class?

[Greycatgingercat]

I was speaking to another parent at DD's nursery and she said that she was upper class. Her husband is a doctor and she does embroidery but mentioned that she also uses dr as her title. She's a lovely lady and we work in similar fields as I run a small business making children's cloths.

I'd never really spoken about class before this, so it prompted me to have a conversation with my mother. I'd consider myself working class but my mother would consider herself middle class, as her father was a head teacher yet she never worked after I was born so after my father left we relied on benefits.

The lady at DD's nursery is originally form Pakistan, but has lived in the UK for 7 years so I'm not sure if it's more of a cultural thing her telling me her class.

What class would you consider yourself as and what do you think makes someone a particular social class?

[Greenglassteacup]

What a load of bollocks

[RickOShay]

Exactly @Greenglassteacup
It really is. It doesn’t matter. Stop romanticising the upper classes, the vast majority of them are deeply unpleasant people.
Move on

[queenofarles]

hopeful I’d put the Middletons as upper middle class ,I think the girls had an early introduction through Marlborough into UC society and were able to navigate easily when it was time for them to socialise. But still I believe some looked down on them, there was talk The Percys were not very happy with Pippa dating George Percy.

[Flaxmeadow]

Thank god I live in Ireland where the question of "what class are you in?" Can be answered only in relation to primary school children

That's because historically most of Ireland didn't industrialise in the same way the UK did.

Understanding class in the UK was very much related industrial labour. The "working class" were the ones in the factories and mines. Wages, capital and all that kind of thing. Fifty years ago the industrial districts and working class was a huge percent of of the UK population

[Fressia123]

It does vary from country to country. In the US my background would be upper middle class. In Mexico, where part of my family is from they're upper class/ aristocratic.

Here, well who knows what I am. But I don't necessarily have to have a job. My family's income is enough to support me and my family. (Same for my sister who lives in Switzerland).

I have pride though, so use as little as possible of that money. Have a fairly skilled job (you'd definitely need a degree to do it) but it pays peanuts! On the same token, I don't have to worry about pensions not retirement funds, there's enough in the family chest, trusts, properties to set me (and my kids) for life.