I’m always surprised at the number of British people who don’t really seem to understand ‘class’, given how prevalent and all-determining it is there.
Just because you’re middle class and like soaps (or the Queen and (allegedly) like them), doesn’t negate the point that a fondness for soaps is, probably, a WC-indicator.
Pretty much everything is a salsa indicator in the UK. Which TV shows you watch (whether you watch TV in the first place). Which newspaper you read. Which supermarket you shop at. What food you eat. Which hobbies you have. Clothes you wear. And that’s before you get into which school you went to, and what accent you have.
Class is undefinable, and so much greater than the sum of its parts.
Tennis and horse-riding are UC and MC pursuits. Football is for the working classes. But it doesn’t therefore follow that everyone who plays tennis is middle class, or everyone who has a season ticket is working class.
It’s not a mathematical equation.
Some things are associated with certain classes, but not everyone from that class will enjoy those things. And people from other classes will partake in them, as well.
The same with wealth / income / assets. Just because you’re £&€, it doesn’t mean you’re middle or U. At all. I mean, most people do know this.
You can’t say, ‘well I’m X class and I do/don’t do Y’ like it’s some sort of mic drop moment. It’s not. It’s meaningless.