What social class am i? :/

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This is something that really bothers me. I feel like i'm slipping and not following my parents' example.

I wish class didn't but I've been made to feel out of place before. What social class would you guys say I 'fit into'? I know it's shallow to ask, please don't judge me for asking. I'd just like to know what you guys think based on some info.

Age: 23
Ethnicity: Mixed race
Occupation: Graduate officer in local government
Salary: £20K
Live: With parents in (owned) 4 bed detached house in home counties (average price in village - £1.5m)
Parents: Civil Service Director/Housewife - just one went to (Russell Group) Uni
Education: Non-selective, comprehensive academy then Oxbridge (2.1 (2015))
Accent: More standard south-eastern than 'posh' (e.g. Joanna Lumley)
Hobbies: Museums, art galleries, theatre, TV
Social: I only made a couple friends at uni so my social group is very small. I only know 1 or 2 people in influential/ 'elite' professions

Am I middle class or does the following make me working class?:
Non-private/grammar education
Low salary/career sector
Non-house ownership
Social group
Accent

Does my parent's social class affect mine a lot or not so much?

Again, please don't judge me for asking. I'm genuinely just curious to know what others might think.

The BBC calculated that l am in the 'lowest' group.
We have an ordinary comfortable life.

OP - I went to Oxbridge, sound like Joanna Lumley, my parents live in a £1.5 m detatched 4 bed in the home counties, for fun I go to museums galleries etc - what class am I?'

Mumsnet = Sorry OP, you're lower working underclass..

Ha Scortja, think you've pretty much nailed it on all fronts there.

We can now end this discussion for nothing else needs to be said.

Why would it even cross your mind? Who cares.

I'd say you're middle class based on your upbringing. I think you've grown up in a time where is now so hard to get a good job out of uni and property is so expensive to buy so you're entering a very different world to the one your parents did at the same age. Baby boomer generation have pretty much screwed over our generation.
I would say class is more about attitude, upbringing and interests now rather than personal wealth alone.
I'd say working class would be someone with a job along the lines of cleaner/call centre worker, living in a lower value home and watching t.v. or going to there local WMC for socialising (massive sweeping generalisation here).

Landy10 you obviously haven't been on MN long or you would know that there are plenty of people who don't see the Queen as that coo she really, Viscount Althrop for one.

OP you are MC, and seem to not know any Working class people. From my working class background I would say most who are WC believe themselves to be vastly superior to the MCs, and more "real".
MC covers a wide range of jobs, education, home ownership status etc.

And I'd consider myself to be MC nowadays, with all the trappings of worrying about schools etc. Very few MC children go to private schools, and I'm sure some UC children go to state ones

It's just not possible to be a posh Scottish person...

Erm...the late Queen Mother was Scottish. And there are loads of Dukes and so on, not to mention the very posh residents of Edinburgh's New Town!
You sound a bit ignorant, tbh.

There is no such thing as class. It's completely made up. The only time I ever heard it mentioned is on here.

I think you are middle class, but at 23 it depends on how things pan out...
Come back with more information in 20 years and we will be able to give you a definitive answer!

Endlessly comparing yourself with others and desperate for approval? Middle class

Convinced that there is no such thing as class and we are all living in social tribes? Middle-middle class.

Opens another tab to google wtf a fish knife is

Ah yes, I've seen these pretentious utensils.
England, don't serve me fish that I need to pick the bones out of while eating.

It's encouraging to hear most people don't judge me much for asking...

Also, I was using Joanna Lumley as someone who does UC! It made me that people thought I was using her as an example of my own accent. I don't know anyone my age (even at Oxbridge?!) who sounds like her. I think it's a generation thing though . (I think JL is great btw!)

Nowt with bony fish, I've never quite understood what a fishknife could do what other knives fail to though.

No fucker's going to expect me to fillet a sole in situ are they?

OP you've namechaneged!

Clearly going up in the world.

Also Jas if you stick around you will notice a preponderance of people who DO NOT take the time to comprehend any of your posts and will cling to a word or phrase contained within and willfully bang any given point home based on that.

Hence the Joanna Lumley confusion.

I've also ordered Watching the English as I find class fascinating.

I especially find these threads fascinating because NO ONE is allowed to be middle class, despite that being the broadest and largest socio ecomonic group. I wonder where all the middle class people hide.

(Waitrose, obviously)

What are society's views on cake forks?

I think if you're at home eating cake alone they are a highly inefficient way of shoveling cake into your gob. Also, a plate is just extra washing up. slurps tea

We had fish knives when I was growing up. But my parents got them by collecting green shield stamps or petrol tokens (for those old enough to remember those).

I am working class although I think I'm probably better described as aspiring working class. My parents went to secondary moderns and worked in blue collar industries. They own their own home thanks to a council mortgage. Their parents both lived in council houses.

I went to a comprehensive school and I am the first in my family to get a degree. I work in a professional job, earn a good salary and live in a leafy suburb. DP is established middle class (from a long line of university graduates, mainly teachers so not wealthy - more Volvo estates and Labradors )

My son is probably middle class as he weaned himself on Waitrose pesto pasta salad, claims sushi is his favourite food and dresses in Boden but I guess time will tell...

OP - IMO you are firmly middle class!

Cake forks are the work of the devil (I am left handed and they are very much not)

Hmm, cake forks?

Specific forks for the eating of cake? - wrong.

Any appropriate tool for enabling cake to the correct office? - right.

Office??

Orifice obvs.

Do you say toilet, lavatory or loo?