Social Class: How do you know what social class do you belong to?

[Anonymous]

For those posters obsessed with class because you think you’re in a higher one than Aunt Marge by marriage in Tennessee, let it go. Seriously, let it go.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For those posters obsessed with class because you think you’re in a higher one than Aunt Marge by marriage in Tennessee, let it go. Seriously, let it go.

I don't even think that's it. It's some sort of immigrant expectation. They might have been a big deal back home and are frustrated that nobody cares who their family is back in the old country. You have to make your own way here and stand on your own feet. Your grandpa is irrelevant.

[Anonymous]

My father was a first generation college attender and so was my mom. He became a doctor and made a lot of money but we definitely weren’t “classy”. My grandparents all had dentures and read tabloid newspapers. My father was permanently a fish out of water, too intimidated to join a country club or go to a fancy restaurant, stay an expensive hotel. He pushed his kids into elite schools, music competitions where it felt like we were always kind of clueless, playing catch up. We didn’t have the cultural capitol - didn’t recognize those key words people throw out. For example, knowing that Rye NY or Grosse Pointe are where the rich people live, that the Ethical Cultural Society is like “rich people church .”’I do okay financially and have a fancy job but am also a perpetual outsider. I have tried to give my kids the cultural capitol but don’t know if I succeeded.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:For those posters obsessed with class because you think you’re in a higher one than Aunt Marge by marriage in Tennessee, let it go. Seriously, let it go.

I don't even think that's it. It's some sort of immigrant expectation. They might have been a big deal back home and are frustrated that nobody cares who their family is back in the old country. You have to make your own way here and stand on your own feet. Your grandpa is irrelevant.

Most of the strivers and gold diggers on DCUM are homegrown, amigo. No need to sling mud at immigrants when you have your own issues to solve.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For those posters obsessed with class because you think you’re in a higher one than Aunt Marge by marriage in Tennessee, let it go. Seriously, let it go.

I don't even think that's it. It's some sort of immigrant expectation. They might have been a big deal back home and are frustrated that nobody cares who their family is back in the old country. You have to make your own way here and stand on your own feet. Your grandpa is irrelevant.

Most of the strivers and gold diggers on DCUM are homegrown, amigo. No need to sling mud at immigrants when you have your own issues to solve.

Nice try. But the people insisting there are classes here have described their family status back wherever they came from. Nobody cares here.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For those posters obsessed with class because you think you’re in a higher one than Aunt Marge by marriage in Tennessee, let it go. Seriously, let it go.

I don't even think that's it. It's some sort of immigrant expectation. They might have been a big deal back home and are frustrated that nobody cares who their family is back in the old country. You have to make your own way here and stand on your own feet. Your grandpa is irrelevant.

Most of the strivers and gold diggers on DCUM are homegrown, amigo. No need to sling mud at immigrants when you have your own issues to solve.

Nice try. But the people insisting there are classes here have described their family status back wherever they came from. Nobody cares here.

You must be new to DCUM. There is at least one thread every single day asking if this or that is "low class."

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Read “Class” by Paul Fussell (or by Jilly Cooper for the UK equivalent). It’s now very dated, but the principles still hold up. It is a combination of money and social mindset, but honestly more social expectations than actual dollars. I can tell that I have jumped up a class as a result of actions taken over several generations - my extended family and I at this point are no longer in the same group, but it was a result more of education and environment than one family getting “richer”. I have no idea which branch of the family earns more. But I went to the Ivy League, work around the highest level of government, have very different expectations of my children in terms of expectations for them like advanced degrees vs trade school, value completely different forms of activity, entertainment (think the opera vs NASCAR), and so forth.

But don’t you agree that the real solution is for us to finally solve the stubborn problem of income inequality?

All work isn't equally valuable.

You are completely wrong about that, stupid MAGA.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Read “Class” by Paul Fussell (or by Jilly Cooper for the UK equivalent). It’s now very dated, but the principles still hold up. It is a combination of money and social mindset, but honestly more social expectations than actual dollars. I can tell that I have jumped up a class as a result of actions taken over several generations - my extended family and I at this point are no longer in the same group, but it was a result more of education and environment than one family getting “richer”. I have no idea which branch of the family earns more. But I went to the Ivy League, work around the highest level of government, have very different expectations of my children in terms of expectations for them like advanced degrees vs trade school, value completely different forms of activity, entertainment (think the opera vs NASCAR), and so forth.

But don’t you agree that the real solution is for us to finally solve the stubborn problem of income inequality?

All work isn't equally valuable.

You are completely wrong about that, stupid MAGA.

That's how these low-class strivers elevate themselves (though only in their own minds). They can't exist unless they're putting everyone else down.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My father was a first generation college attender and so was my mom. He became a doctor and made a lot of money but we definitely weren’t “classy”. My grandparents all had dentures and read tabloid newspapers. My father was permanently a fish out of water, too intimidated to join a country club or go to a fancy restaurant, stay an expensive hotel. He pushed his kids into elite schools, music competitions where it felt like we were always kind of clueless, playing catch up. We didn’t have the cultural capitol - didn’t recognize those key words people throw out. For example, knowing that Rye NY or Grosse Pointe are where the rich people live, that the Ethical Cultural Society is like “rich people church .”’I do okay financially and have a fancy job but am also a perpetual outsider. I have tried to give my kids the cultural capitol but don’t know if I succeeded.

Dentures aren’t low class.

Gum disease doesn’t discriminate. Even those who see the dentist and specialists 2-4 times a year sometimes end up needing dentures.

Low class would be walking around without dentures. And that really has more to do with lack of money or a fear rather than class.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Read “Class” by Paul Fussell (or by Jilly Cooper for the UK equivalent). It’s now very dated, but the principles still hold up. It is a combination of money and social mindset, but honestly more social expectations than actual dollars. I can tell that I have jumped up a class as a result of actions taken over several generations - my extended family and I at this point are no longer in the same group, but it was a result more of education and environment than one family getting “richer”. I have no idea which branch of the family earns more. But I went to the Ivy League, work around the highest level of government, have very different expectations of my children in terms of expectations for them like advanced degrees vs trade school, value completely different forms of activity, entertainment (think the opera vs NASCAR), and so forth.

But don’t you agree that the real solution is for us to finally solve the stubborn problem of income inequality?

All work isn't equally valuable.

You are completely wrong about that, stupid MAGA.

DP here. It’s not. All work is valuable. Not all work is equally valuable.

My teen’s work as a cashier at a grocery store is not as valuable as my work at mega corporation. And my work at mega corporation isn’t as valuable as my BIL’s work as a cardiac surgeon for high risk patients.

That has nothing to do with the ridiculous issue of class.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:For those posters obsessed with class because you think you’re in a higher one than Aunt Marge by marriage in Tennessee, let it go. Seriously, let it go.

I don't even think that's it. It's some sort of immigrant expectation. They might have been a big deal back home and are frustrated that nobody cares who their family is back in the old country. You have to make your own way here and stand on your own feet. Your grandpa is irrelevant.

Most of the strivers and gold diggers on DCUM are homegrown, amigo. No need to sling mud at immigrants when you have your own issues to solve.

Nice try. But the people insisting there are classes here have described their family status back wherever they came from. Nobody cares here.

You must be new to DCUM. There is at least one thread every single day asking if this or that is "low class."

I'm pretty sure it's the same person over and over and everyone mocks that person.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My father was a first generation college attender and so was my mom. He became a doctor and made a lot of money but we definitely weren’t “classy”. My grandparents all had dentures and read tabloid newspapers. My father was permanently a fish out of water, too intimidated to join a country club or go to a fancy restaurant, stay an expensive hotel. He pushed his kids into elite schools, music competitions where it felt like we were always kind of clueless, playing catch up. We didn’t have the cultural capitol - didn’t recognize those key words people throw out. For example, knowing that Rye NY or Grosse Pointe are where the rich people live, that the Ethical Cultural Society is like “rich people church .”’I do okay financially and have a fancy job but am also a perpetual outsider. I have tried to give my kids the cultural capitol but don’t know if I succeeded.

I’ve been in this position as well because my UC mother was a mentally ill wreck and taught us nothing and she drove my dad off when I was 4. It’s fine, we don’t need the cultural capital of the 1%. It’s overrated. Especially on DCUM. Just enjoy life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For those posters obsessed with class because you think you’re in a higher one than Aunt Marge by marriage in Tennessee, let it go. Seriously, let it go.

I don't even think that's it. It's some sort of immigrant expectation. They might have been a big deal back home and are frustrated that nobody cares who their family is back in the old country. You have to make your own way here and stand on your own feet. Your grandpa is irrelevant.

Most of the strivers and gold diggers on DCUM are homegrown, amigo. No need to sling mud at immigrants when you have your own issues to solve.

Nice try. But the people insisting there are classes here have described their family status back wherever they came from. Nobody cares here.

You must be new to DCUM. There is at least one thread every single day asking if this or that is "low class."

I'm pretty sure it's the same person over and over and everyone mocks that person.

I think it might be more than one person, but I hope you are right.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My father was a first generation college attender and so was my mom. He became a doctor and made a lot of money but we definitely weren’t “classy”. My grandparents all had dentures and read tabloid newspapers. My father was permanently a fish out of water, too intimidated to join a country club or go to a fancy restaurant, stay an expensive hotel. He pushed his kids into elite schools, music competitions where it felt like we were always kind of clueless, playing catch up. We didn’t have the cultural capitol - didn’t recognize those key words people throw out. For example, knowing that Rye NY or Grosse Pointe are where the rich people live, that the Ethical Cultural Society is like “rich people church .”’I do okay financially and have a fancy job but am also a perpetual outsider. I have tried to give my kids the cultural capitol but don’t know if I succeeded.

Dentures aren’t low class.

Gum disease doesn’t discriminate. Even those who see the dentist and specialists 2-4 times a year sometimes end up needing dentures.

Low class would be walking around without dentures. And that really has more to do with lack of money or a fear rather than class.

Yeah, and pretty much everyone’s grandparents either had dentures or obviously missing teeth. Whatever their “class.”

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For those posters obsessed with class because you think you’re in a higher one than Aunt Marge by marriage in Tennessee, let it go. Seriously, let it go.

I don't even think that's it. It's some sort of immigrant expectation. They might have been a big deal back home and are frustrated that nobody cares who their family is back in the old country. You have to make your own way here and stand on your own feet. Your grandpa is irrelevant.

Most of the strivers and gold diggers on DCUM are homegrown, amigo. No need to sling mud at immigrants when you have your own issues to solve.

Nice try. But the people insisting there are classes here have described their family status back wherever they came from. Nobody cares here.

You must be new to DCUM. There is at least one thread every single day asking if this or that is "low class."

I'm pretty sure it's the same person over and over and everyone mocks that person.

I think it might be more than one person, but I hope you are right.

I think it’s a very small group of ridiculous people who have too much time on their hands to think about stuff that doesn’t matter and most people don’t care about.