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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What's the big deal? If you love your family, enjoy your job, get to take vacations now and then?

Why are people so obsessed with whether their body type seems upper class or if they have the right engagement ring etc?

Explain it to me please. [/quote]

Because of our national beginnings, Americans are uncomfortable discussing class. In England, everyone is painfully aware of exactly where they fit. There are rules, pervasive, unyielding and commonly-understood. Here, everyone is middle class. It has led to a lot of class anxiety among those who've traveled beyond what their families provided them. If they are no longer the middle class sort they grew up as, what are they? How do they differentiate? How exactly?[b]No family photos on the first floor[/b] ? Okay. Smaller breasts indicate upper class arrival? Sure, why not? It's not like anyone - anyone - knows anyway, so let's seek definitions where we may. DC is full of lawyers. If there were ever a class shifting profession, this is it. So, it shouldn't be so surprising that you'd see this sort of panic here.

Try Fussel's Class: A Guide Through the American Status System. Tom Wolfe, Dominick Dunne, and PJ O'Rourke all had good things to say about The Official Filthy Rich Handbook, by Christopher Tennant.
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