What does it mean to be 'working class'?

some of the replies on here....

the fugal system is DEAD people!! and good riddance as well

why do you care how you are labelled?

more importantly, you sound embarassed to be working class?

i work, my parents work, i would thereofore state that i am proudly from the working classes

i couldn't care less whether or not the fact that i am starting a degree this september affects my social status???

you shouldn't be so worried about where you stand in society. personally, the lower people deem me on the social strata, the better, because when i make it, the more surpised they'll be

results day for me was so special. this wasn't becuase i achieved 3 As, this is because i achieved 3 As after being told i'd hardly be able to get 3 Bs.

let people say you are less of a person than they. it should spur you on, to prove just how much more of a person than them you are.

and not because of how much land daddy owns, or because how many ponies daddy has bought you, but because of how much you have achieved.

awwww geeeee thanks mister!!!

i haven't had positive rep in a long time...

I don't think money plays a part. Most premiership footballers would be working class wouldn't they?

Good for you. I do, however, wonder what on Earth the "fugal" system is.

But, seriously, fair enough. The class system perhaps shouldn't exist but people will always want to feel superior to others and will thus put others into lower classes. IMHO.

Good for you. I do, however, wonder what on Earth the "fugal" system is.

But, seriously, fair enough. The class system perhaps shouldn't exist but people will always want to feel superior to others and will thus put others into lower classes. IMHO.

I guess I am 'working class', seeing as my parents are a mechanic and a receptionist. But I have never understood how the class system works...why do I have to be 'working class' just because my parents are?

And what does 'working class' mean exactly? I define it by the kind of occupation you have, but like I said, I don't really understand it at all...

If you have a degree, are you still working class?

Definitely - except a few from the low countries and northern europe who appear to be slightly more classy!

Money I believe gets people's families into the position to become middle class (or it did so years ago), but being middle class to me is all about culture and values; and even that divides the middle classes up into sections. To be honest I try to judge people on who they are, and I try not to get a fixed impression of someone.

The way a person talks is a consideration.

Not at all - I regard many members of hte aristocracy and royal family as from a higher social class than myself, but I don't think of them as superior. Much as while I think of most of my friends as having come from a 'lower rung' on the social ladder than I have, I don't think i'm better than them. It's just about background to be honest; people like to have an identity (you only have to look up figures on sales of ancestry tracing materials to see this).

No worries - if you can find a way to supply me with biscuits without me having to leave my house then i'll give you more

hahahahhaha, my bad ***feudal!

I was wondering why you thought people were spending more

The way a person talks is a consideration.

Do you mean accent, or propensity to swearing & colloquialisms and general grammatical performance, or vocabulary?

Or a combinatin of some or all the above?

I think you would say that they came from working class backgrounds. It's a combination of economic and social factors I'd say(like how much polo you play ).

Lol, no worries, I think we guessed

My mind did wonder what a "Frugal system" was though. I was wondering why you thought people were spending more

Nowadays? Nothing...

They are.