Heh surely you mean the middle?
On 27 Apr, 16:05, Slip Disc <[email protected]> wrote:
> If the class is to be determined by who you are then you are "of the
> working class", however if the determination is based on social
> economic status the you would be middle class.
>
> Go to the top of the class Lee!
>
> On Apr 27, 9:40 am, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > Well to put it into the context of Slips original post.
>
> > If I come from a working class background, and yet earn enough to keep
> > myself and my dependants living in a middleclass lifestlye, what class
> > am I actualy?
>
> > On 27 Apr, 14:01, Molly Brogan <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > > Ohhhhhhh, good one, can we become without doing?
>
> > > On Apr 27, 5:44 am, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > > > Hey Slip,
>
> > > > The short answer would be we are defined by what we do.
>
> > > > Your background does not matter, as much as which actions you perform.
>
> > > > On 26 Apr, 03:27, Slip Disc <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > > > > I find that many people regardless of their social status, socio-
> > > > > enconomic level or general upbringing sometimes identify with that
> > > > > which they are not. Some call them a "wannabe". Whatever the label
> > > > > whatever the alter ego it still remains the same, people relating with
> > > > > that which they are not.
>
> > > > > Actor extraordinaire Daniel Day-Lewis once said,
> > > > > "I came from the educated middle class but I identified with the
> > > > > working classes. Those were the people I looked up to. The lads whose
> > > > > fathers worked on the docks or in shipping yards or were shopkeepers.
> > > > > I knew that I wasn't part of that world, but I was intrigued by it.
> > > > > They had a different way of communicating. People who delight in
> > > > > conversation are often using that as a means to not say what is on
> > > > > their minds. When I became interested in theater, the work I admired
> > > > > was being done by working-class writers. It was often about the
> > > > > inarticulate. I later saw that same thing in Robert De Niro's early
> > > > > work - it was the most sublime struggle of a man trying to express
> > > > > himself. There was such poetry in that for me."
>
> > > > > Are we who we are or are we that which we identify with, or possibly a
> > > > > combination of both?
>
> > > > > Personally I think that in someway we all identify with specific
> > > > > things in the external world that we feel suits our personal desire,
> > > > > want or need and then by adopting that identity we somehow learn to be
> > > > > that which we identify with, unless it is beyond our capacity to
> > > > > become that.
>
> > > > > Is that a distraction from who we "really" are? Is the constant
> > > > > bombardment from multi-media a detriment to the development of the
> > > > > true self?
>
> > > > > Do we waste much of our time in youth attempting to emulate that which
> > > > > we are intrigued by only to realize later in life the reality of who
> > > > > we really are?- Hide quoted text -
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