So what class are you in?

[alwaysmoody]

I see a lot of comments about social class "la di daaa"

So I'm curious to which class you would all place yourselves?

Honestly?

I'm from a LC background but I'm wealthy now from my own hard work and live in a MN area from what I've gathered (Chiswick) but I definitely don't fit in with these "mums" I still prefer having my friends from council estates in hounslow over

So what social classes are you from? And please be naice

Have we had

"Lovely salt of the earth old money people in their banged up cars" yet?

Or even, "Nasty nouveau riche types in their newbuilds and white Range Rovers"?

Literally 2 posts up from yours.

Keep bashing out the tired old stereotypes MN. Never change.

I'm foreign so don't quite fit in with all the English class markers but probably lower middle in England and in Italy too.
Nice and average

My 99% effective technique for determining class:

If you don't know what class you are, you're middle class.

In the US I'm upper middle class. The class system in the UK is sufficiently mysterious to me that I have no idea what I'd be there.

@OrganicSmorganic 🤣 On a previous class thread many pp's were trying the calculator to determine their class.
Some got highly annoyed when other's argued you could not change class by getting a degree and a better job. You might live a m.c lifestyle but unless brought up m.c. you're not m.c.

The class system in the UK is sufficiently mysterious to me that I have no idea what I'd be there Probably the same class.

MissConductUS
Its the same wealth inequality you'll be familiar with. But laid on top of an existing feudal system.
What we call "Upper Class" is the aristocracy and people related to aristocracy.
Our "Upper Middle" would encompass people who would be "Upper Class" in the US. ie: wealthy people, who's families have been wealthy for a while and who have access to elite culture and connections.
If your "Upper Middle" in the US I would guess your either "Upper Middle" or "Middle Middle" here.

The class system has been redefined by social scientists to include three measures:
Economic wealth (how much money/assets you own)
Cultural wealth (how you spend your downtime)
Social wealth (who your peers are)

There is a calculator online if you care.
I care. Why? Not because I can pay myself on the back for ‘levelling-up’ or whatever, but because we need to measure inequality in society for it to thrive. There are far too many people in what is now referred to as the ‘precariat’ who are balancing right on the edge and not making ends meet. This has an impact on their children and their children’s children. This needs to be measure so it can be a more balanced society.

The class system is not there as a way to massage the ego of the middle class.

If you have to work for your money then working class

What about pensioners? Or those on long term benefit as they’re unable to work?

So I'm curious to which class you would all place yourselves?

Perhaps that requires to be rephrased. It doesn’t make sense.

Genuine class is never about money.

I don’t know. I care, in an abstract way.

On the Middle Class side: I have a degree and work a professional job earning £41k a year. My dad had a professional job also, and had lots of qualifications although not a degree. Mum was mainly a SAHM.

On the Working Class side: we live in a very deprived area, DH barely has GCSEs, and his family are all clear working class with no higher education.

We don’t have a lot of spare money but that’s due to debt.

As a family I’d say we were WC with MC pretensions

...you’re

Genuine class is never about money.

What would non-'genuine' class be?

What constitutes upper class in the state’s? Given the lack of aristocracy.

What class are you if you are all fur coat and no knickers?
Thats me

LaurieMarlow I think its what we would think of as very established Upper Middle Class

Elite.

Does correctly using the apostrophe count?

Does correctly using the apostrophe count?

Oh ffs, I’m on my phone and it autocorrected.

I didn’t bother redoing it, because I’m on MN, not in a fucking exam.

HTH.

I’ve no idea. My grandfather was senior civil service, my dm privately educated, after her marriage we were free school meals family, poor as church mice. I’m a grammar school/graduate single mother with own home, no mortgage.

Heaven knows what that makes me

What would non-'genuine' class be?

Those who talk about how much money they earn, what this or that cost, people who flash money around or wear awful “designer” clothing.

Think Beckhams.

In the US I'm upper middle class. The class system in the UK is sufficiently mysterious to me that I have no idea what I'd be there.

I know an American family who I think would describe themselves as upper middle or even upper class. They are very wealthy and you can tell that they are very impressed with themselves for having gotten a work placement in Europe for a few years. With the marked exception of the entrenched Ivy League elites, I think it the States it is almost completely down to money. Looking in from the outside, the family seem very crass nouveau riche to me. Spotless and perfectly decorated house, caked-on makeup, designer labels, flashy cars, lots of posed social media posts, and the mum once told me they like the idea of holidaying “anywhere the royals might go.” To me they seem very lower middle with money. 🙈

LaurieMarlow

That wasn’t actually directed at you.
I am using my iPhone as I type. HTH