Poshness/Malfoys

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No: HPFGUIDX 5930

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Neil Ward <neilward at d...> wrote:
> At 20:15 11/19/2000 -0000, Jim Flanagan wrote:
> Britain did have a rigid class sytem and that still exists to some 
extent,
> but these days terms such as 'middle-class' and 'working-class' 
(which are
> still used as shorthand) are not so much confining as defining.  
People have
> 'working-class pride' and 'middle-class values' in an increasingly 
classless
> society.  

For me as an American, the key to British class descriptions is that 
they do NOT use "working-" and "middle-class" interchangeably.

Most Americans sonsider ourselves "middle-class" unless we are;
a) resident in a cardboard box in an alley, or;
b) Bill Gates.