Upper Class Characteristics
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Anonymous
| How would you define the term "upper class"? Is it just about HHI/net worth or is there more to it than that? |
Anonymous
| Again? Really? |
Anonymous
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If you have to ask, then........
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Anonymous
| If you have to ask... |
Anonymous
| omg you people have so much butt hurt. Get over yourselves. |
Anonymous
| Enough toilets to allow all members of the family to poop at once on the same floor. |
Anonymous
^^not upper-class, clearly. |
Anonymous
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millions in the bank, not striving by wearing deisgner clothes/driving luxury cars. this is what i think of, anyway.
i don't think of it as all about HHI or assets. there is an element of attitude involved. i wouldn't think of someone who recently started making $500k+ a year and lives in a mcmansion, drives a humvee, and blows $$$ on vacations to vegas with "his boys" to be upper class. |
Anonymous
I read this too quickly and now have the hiccups. Thank you! |
Anonymous
| Just stop already. |
Anonymous
| Capitalizing the first letter of each sentence is tantamount to upperclass in my opinion. |
Anonymous
| Op, have you heard? This isn't the UK -- Americans don't have nobility or strict class designations. Just do you and let the other fools worry about their lives. |
Anonymous
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I'll play.
Clear, articulate speech with an expansive vocabulary. Awareness of social niceties and etiquette. A propensity to be reserved and appropriately thoughtful, especially in conversation. Quietly wealthy but outwardly financially conservative. Humble, quiet financial (or board) support of carefully-considered charities. Nothing says new money than obvious, cloying social climbing and desperate attempts to display wealth and perceived status. |
Anonymous
| And here we go. |
Anonymous
| Not going to find any here on DCUM to tell you. Might want to try elsewhere. |