What are middle class people like, jobs?

lanfranco

In the U.S., the term "middle class" covers a very wide range of jobs and salaries and can be divided into lower, middle, and upper-middle-class. Any well-employed person, from an assistant store manager to a prosperous lawyer or doctor, could be described as "middle class." The term is extremely fluid here. I've read recently that in the U.K., a millionaire can be described as "middle-class" if he didn't come from the aristocracy or the landed gentry. I can't be sure about that, so perhaps some of our British members could address it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_class Oct 03 07, 7:54 PM

wendypj

Absolutely right Frankie. In the UK the 'upper class' are only those who have heredetory titles these days - wealth is not a factor, so those internet billionaires rank below the Lords and Ladies who have little left of their inheritances, socially speaking. It used to be those with titles and those who owned significant acreages of land but that was back in the day when the purchase of land was not available to the average person. Generally, if you aren't born into the upper class then you can never get there. Oct 03 07, 11:52 PM

billythebrit

Even Sir Paul McCartney (with a title!) and a cool billion in the bank proudly declared himself working-class on Channel 4's TFI Friday with Chris Evans programme in the 90s. You can take the boy out of Liverpool but.... Yeah, my country is riddled with class but less so these days. When a footballer's wife gets the term 'posh' you know things are changing. But even in the US you get your upper-class families. Before it was the Kennedy family, now it's the dynasty of the Family Bush and who knows? Maybe the Clintons will be the next Royal Family of the USA. You fought Britain for freedom from this kind of nonsense, but powerful, at the top of society families happen, however much you try to be equal and fair. Don't tell me that the Bushes, Clintons et al are thought of in the same way as Eminem and Britney because they have the same amount of cash. There is so a class system in the US, though you may refer to it in different langage. But a rose by any other name... Oct 07 07, 12:54 PM