While able to save a little, we are otherwise living from wage to wage with a few niceties here and there. So I'm working class, white collar. I aspire to the middle class, but I don't want to become one of
them.
I'm curious as to what those other connotations are.
As with all connotations, it's difficult to really pin them down.
this 'spoof' article might give you a picture:
quote:
What was once simply called the "Middle Class", is now known as the "Middle-Middle Class". This group no longer has its own identity and heritage, but is now sandwiched between the two new groups of Upper and Lower Middle Class (obviously that's "sandwiched" with the crusts cut off, sliced into triangles, and with the proper sized cup of tea available - milk in first.) The Middle-Middle Class retains its aura of weary patience, owning of Ford Mondeos and its insistence on Doing The Right Thing, even when that thing is pointless and outdated.
All Middle-Middle Class people live in Surrey, causing a problem of over-population there which is such a shame because its such its such a nice neighbourhood, and a serious shortage of ironing ladies. The dangerous terrain of Surrey means that they need to drive four by fours in order to ensure Felicity gets safely to ballet classes, and little Tobias to his Bright Baby Group. Middle-Middle Class people know that these are the important things in life. The up-coming generation is the future. Although, admittedly, that future will be just as pointless and outdated as the present.
Education actually counts for a lot less than you might otherwise think in the middle-middle class. Literacy is measured by the amount of outrage expressed whilst reading a copy of the Daily Mail. Productivity is measured in the amount of other sections, sub-sections, micro-sub-sections, sub-micro-sections and sub-micro-sub-micro-sub-sections of society that are "threatening" what the middle-middle class refer to as "the traditional British way of life" (referring to the aspirational existence shown in repeats of Jeeves & Wooster.)
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