>What's not to like about the middle class? I come from a pretty solidly
>middle class suburban background, thank you very much.
One of the main differences between the US and the UK is that in the US more
people classify themselves as 'middle class' than actually are by any
measure of employment, etc. In the UK, 54% of the population consider
themselves working class, despite that fact that by any measure of
employment, a lot of them aren't (stand up Ian Brown, Grammar school
drop-out).
Simply put, the working class and the aristocracy are cool, the middle class
aren't and can't be - even if most British pop has actually come from the
bored suburbs, and even if most working class families are as respectable,
if not more so, than their middle class equivalents - but what each stands
for is different.
