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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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