Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/03

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica Class double date
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2000 18:29:56 -0500

At 02:22 PM 2/3/2000 -0800, Mark Rabiner wrote:
>According to what I remember reading in a book by Paul Fussell called "Class"
>(strangely enough)

Hmm.

Amerca, and the UK, both have six classes:

pariahs (street people)
underclass (welfare types)
working class
yeomanry (shop-keepers, admin sorts, the guys who wear short-sleeve shirts)
gentry (large shop owners, managers in major concerns, professionals)
upper-crust (the rich)

In the US, there is social mobility.  The children of yeoman families,
especially, are moving up into the gentry.  They are joining country-clubs,
going to tailored clothing, and driving imported cars, things their folks
never would have done.  And the children of working-class stiffs are going
to college and getting themselves jobs as management trainees in banks, and
are moving from Chevies and Fords to Buicks and Mercuries.

It is subtle, but it is there.

Marc

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