Re: The class system.
Although I would agree to a point with Mollie, except to say her last statement, and I quote >>>>>>>>>>>>>
My point is that class has nothing to do with how much money you have, or what your standing in the community is or your rank in life. It is to do with your upbringing and how much you're respected by others. >>>>>> unquote, is, in my opinion, wrong.
For example, if you were brought up in a working class enviroment, and your parents wanted the best, in their opinion for you, and they scrimped and saved to send you for --elocution lessons--- private tutoring for your weaker subjects etc --- you would become known, by your contempories as a bit of a "snob". Because your parents were trying to "better you, you have now become, in their minds, better than them, and THAT demands ridicule and the "snob" label.
I know things they are a changing but the fact still remains, if you are born into "class" whether you be rich or even richer the simple fact of your, or your parents title will open doors for you that would otherwise remain closed to the "lesser" class.
Those two types of upbrimg are still VERY relevent in todays society when it comes to --jobs for the boys----- and please don't deluge the thread with stories of ---- well I know this boy / girl etc etc etc ----- I am generalising, and as the same as --averaging out --- some will fall BELOW the line and some will RISE above that average line.
Manners, they say, maketh the man, now that applies in EVERY class, manner are, in my opinion a gentic thing, you are born with with average manners-- but some fortunately are gifted with being above the average, whilst others fall sadly well below the average, most of us, i would think, are fairly average.
When class is added at birth, those lesser mannered people could be regarded arrogant -- blustering --- haughty --- Lordly etc etc etc. But when born to a working class with less than good manners you are labelled as ---- ignorant ----- uneducated --- crude ---crass --gross etc etc .
But the similarity is --- both classes are the same, its just the path in later life they choose to travel that reveals all.