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.. I suspect that if you were to compare some city neighbourhoods in the USA of the 40s/50s with the same areas today, you might notice a few changes, too./////in some places yes but very unfortunately in too many places zero changes at all and they were bad enough in that period 'Working class', now that's a blast from the past, one seldom hears the phrase nowadays, and, when one does, it's usually used by someone successful wishing to stress how far they've come from their 'roots'. How many people did you meet on your recent visit who, unprompted, referred to themselves as 'working class' or 'common folk', I wonder? But one or two but I periodically see it in the UK papers which I read on the internet daily plus I have seen it on this web site on more than one occasion.....I remember a sister-in-law who to her death about five years ago still considerd herself to be 'working class'....and...she was quite well eduacated and not without the "means" to have a very comfortable life.....but....came from a 'working class background'....whatever that is... |
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In article , "Harold Walker" writes: | | 'Working class', now that's a blast from the past, one seldom hears the | phrase nowadays, and, when one does, it's usually used by someone | successful | wishing to stress how far they've come from their 'roots'. How many people | did you meet on your recent visit who, unprompted, referred to themselves | as | 'working class' or 'common folk', I wonder? | | But one or two but I periodically see it in the UK papers which I read on | the internet daily plus I have seen it on this web site on more than one | occasion.....I remember a sister-in-law who to her death about five years | ago still considerd herself to be 'working class'....and...she was quite | well eduacated and not without the "means" to have a very comfortable | life.....but....came from a 'working class background'....whatever that | is... An increasing number are using it to refer to what is more properly called the underclass - i.e. the sort of people who are shown in various of the soaps, complete with no education, no steady jobs, no ambition, a record of petty crime and delinquency and so on. I find that calling the class of people who are not capable of doing a useful job, and not prepared to do one either, the "working class" rather sticks in my gullet. Still, to a great extent they were created when That Woman decided that the middle classes needed people to look down on, so their situation isn't entirely the fault of their class :-( Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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