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[quote=Anonymous]People who think class is either your manners, or a rigid social hierarchy from the classist societies of the past are both missing the point. Modern class is not about who your great grandparents were or how nice you are to other people.

Modern class is really the socio-economic cultural group you belong to. The PP who commented people can decide what class they want to be part of is correct up to a point, you can seemingly be part of your preferred socio-economic group as long as 1) you can afford it and 2) you adhere to its rules and expectations. Examples of socio-economic cultural groups:

Country club Republicans /SEC fraternities and sororities in the South

NYT/NPR/canvas tote bags/Brooklyn fetishers and their followers nationally

Self driven corporate executives and professionals in groomed newer suburbia

Rural and small town working class whites

Urban poor African Americans

Bicoastal upper middle class liberal white women with advanced degrees

Affluent self made new money California and Florida.

Upper middle to upper class black professionals

This short list of examples shows the US compromises of many disparate socio-economic cultural groups. But they do not fall into pecking orders with implications of hierarchies of superiority and inferiority, because none of the groups defers to any others but lives wholly to themselves.

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