Do you generally date people within your own social class?
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Do you generally date people within your own social class?Do you usually date someone who fits within what you believe to be your social class? Are you more compatible with people who share your social class? Or do you unintentionally date similar people in terms of social class because the majority of the time you are around them?
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Re: Do you generally date people within your own social class?I also don't believe in the social class system. People shouldn't be divided at all but I think it still exists as there are clear divides between people.(Original post by Zoombini)
I really dont believe in the class system and I don't think exists anymore so I couldn't possibly answer your question. -
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Re: Do you generally date people within your own social class?Contrary to what people say on here there are clear divides between people of different social classes. I am open to date anyone from any social class however I find that I get on more with people of my class and sometimes I get the feeling that I get looked down on by girls of 'higher' classes.
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Re: Do you generally date people within your own social class?How can you not believe in the class system? It's like not believing in gravity.(Original post by Zoombini)
I really dont believe in the class system and I don't think exists anymore so I couldn't possibly answer your question.
It really wouldn't bother me to answer the question. No extremes would be my answer, but even still I'd be open to it. -
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Re: Do you generally date people within your own social class?Oh no she di'n't(Original post by Lucia.)
I don't care about someone's social class...
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Re: Do you generally date people within your own social class?Yes I date within my own class.
Social classes are less defined and rigid than they used to be, but nevertheless they exist, even though people define them differently. The fact that you are more likely to get along with and spend your life with someone of a different background, culture and lifestyle is fairly obvious. It's not discriminating or shallow to choose on those grounds - 6 billion people on the planet - you spend your time and emotional energy on those most likely to fit you. -
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Re: Do you generally date people within your own social class?This.(Original post by Aconcernedparent)
Social classes are less defined and rigid than they used to be, but nevertheless they exist, even though people define them differently. It's not discriminating or shallow to choose on those grounds - 6 billion people on the planet - you spend your time and emotional energy on those most likely to fit you.
Anyone who disagrees is defining love as something people owe each other, rather than something they give only to someone who's worth it.Last edited by Lucia.; 16-06-2012 at 20:39. -
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Re: Do you generally date people within your own social class?I guess you could say I don't, although I wouldn't have said that there is necessarily a class divide, just different personalities. We live together now, 4 years later, but before we moved out etc, he lived on a council estate - I guess you could class my family as 'upper-middle class' or something poncey like that lol.
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Re: Do you generally date people within your own social class?I don't believe people are seperated into classes anymore, yeh obviously there are great inequalities but i dont think you can divide people in seperate classes its more of a continuum.(Original post by Tedaus)
How can you not believe in the class system? It's like not believing in gravity.
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Re: Do you generally date people within your own social class?Yes, but not deliberately, more because I've generally met them in similar circumstances, or mutual friends, etc.
There was one who was... well, less well off than I am, and it didn't end well, but that hardly because of our wealth differences. -
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Re: Do you generally date people within your own social class?I was wondering this question myself. However, I do believe in in judging from past relationships, the people I dated from the same social class happened to be people I had more in common and compatibility with. Sometimes I dated guys from a a different class and due to insecurity, jealousy and not understanding me, there tended to be arguments. The common negating influence was concerned with money I.e. One is used to spending as they please, but the other is frugal.
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Re: Do you generally date people within your own social class?Students seem to be mostly middle class anyway.
That's how I feel. I get on better with people who have had similar experiences to me. I feel sometimes I'm looked down on by these white, middle class girls with southern accents who have come straight from sixth form and from living with their parents seem to be overly represented in university cities/towns. I'm from a council estate and that's who I am. Call me a chav. I don't care.(Original post by MancBoy)
I find that I get on more with people of my class and sometimes I get the feeling that I get looked down on by girls of 'higher' classes.Last edited by jblackmoustache; 17-06-2012 at 12:59. -
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Re: Do you generally date people within your own social class?Agreed. I am in the EXACT same position as you although I don't know about you but I have a strong Manc accent which I think either enforces being looked down upon or just scares these kind of girls away lol(Original post by jblackmoustache)
Students seem to be mostly middle class anyway.
That's how I feel. I get on better with people who have had similar experiences to me. I feel sometimes I'm looked down on by these white, middle class girls with southern accents who have come straight from sixth form and from living with their parents seem to be overly represented in university cities/towns. I'm from a council estate and that's who I am. Call me a chav. I don't care. -
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Re: Do you generally date people within your own social class?Although people argue about social class, I personally believe they is no 'middle class'. For me, your are either of aristocracy (upper class), that do not work for their primary income as such, but have inherited or are to inherit the majority of their wealth.
Then we have working class. I understand that doctors, lawyers earn a lot more than un-skilled/technical work generally, however ultimately they have to 'work' to earn their money. If they didn't work/study etc they wouldn't have an income making them working class.
Same as footballers, self-made millionaires anyone who works to earn money, they are 'working class'. Just with a higher income and higher qualifications if applicable.
So for that reason, yes I would date anyone who probably wasn't upper class as coming from a working class background, I do not have the social etiquette/circle etc to be around these people comfortably, however If I really liked a aristocrat then yes I would date, but generally no.
