To be confused about the classes?

[eleusis]

Maybe I'm just a dumb foreigner. But I can't quite work out the difference between working and middle class. Don't middle class people work? And don't people who work generally fall somewhere in the middle of the class system?

I was accused of being upper class yesterday, which I'll have you know has amused me to no end.

Read "Class" by Jilly Cooper where she tries to figure it all out...

RosaisRed - my father called my Welsh SIL 'that slapper from the valleys'. You got off lightly

Well he couldn't bury it under the patio, because the upper middle classes don't have patios. So he chopped it up and fed it to the foxhounds.

Wiki on WASPs:

"is no longer the sole elite group"

"marriages between WASPs, Jews and Catholics not altogether rare"

my italics...