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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Frankly I doubt that if you consort with middle class people, you are familiar with many upper class people. I don’t mean that in a snobby way, it’s just the truth. So I doubt your data pool is significant. Alternatively, if you’re mostly around UC, then I think you can’t really opine on the MC.[/quote]

First, learn to read. OP is talking about UMC, not UC.

UMC and MC people interact all the time, and the line is fuzzy. Especially in a place like DC with very high COL, where many UMC people send their kids to school, live in gentrifying neighborhoods, etc. My neighborhood in DC has plenty of MC families (feds, school teachers, nurses, etc.) who live in houses bought before the neighborhood gentrified, or in condos. But it also has lots of UMC people (lawyers, doctors, consultants, political people, high level feds) who bought more recently.

We interact daily, and OP’s observation holds. The UMC people are more aloof and less friendly. They smile less. They can be friendly towards each other if they have an established relationship, but they are outwardly cold. MC people are friendlier and more open.[/quote]

I did read it, and OP stated that she felt both UC and MC people are friendly, but I seriously doubt that she has enough information about one group or the other to make an informed statement. If she is hanging around a lot of MC people, she does not have the same relationship with UC people, and vice versa. People generally stick to their social class. So I think her whole premise is flawed, because she is only having superficial interactions with at least one of these groups, and is therefore unqualified to really opine on the subject in an informed way. [/quote]

But OP is talking about superficial interactions. When someone says a person was cold and unfriendly, they aren't talking about an interaction with a close friend. OP means that when she encounters UMC (or MC or UC) people out in the world, on a playground or at a cocktail party or on an airplane. All places you might encounter someone of another class, especially if you live in an urban area.

Also, just in general, UC and MC people encounter each other constantly because UC empty a lot of MC people. Some MC might only interact with other MC and UMC people, but no UC people ONLY interact with UC people. They might not think much about the MC people they interact with or consider them peers, but they do interact with them, daily.[/quote]

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