This thread is probably done now and I just want to say my point...pretty same what others said.
Middle class-in the UK, ok. Middle class. There is the aristrocacy. Entertainters. Politians. Everybody else.
I guss there she is considered Middle -class. Still, even with UK have a class system, Kate and her family seems to be in the straust of rich. Well off. Wealthy. Their family wealth is that of lets say, some entertainers, politicans, writers, etc. professionals .
Because she is married to PW, the press likes using Middle Class.
Even in teh UK with the class system, true Middle -Calls would be that of Sophie RJ -CoW family.
A secretary mom I believe. Her dad had some sort of regualr salaried job. She went to regular schools, etc.
That is the thing that gets me is the shading of the truth in media , the need to emblish a story when there true story is good enough.
Sohie RJ was a Middle -Calls ordinary girl who really married a Prince; STILL, there are many layers under that...Edward and Sophie's age, career paths ' crossed, years living together, divorces of his siblings, etc. There is no need for say Mr. Cab drivers' daughter to think, hey, Kate married PWilliam, well, she has a shot at PHarry. Nuh-uh. Not happening.
Kate 's family was rich. Not aristocratic. Self-made wealthy. She and her siblings moved in all the right circles, right schools, places, etc. I keep saying, if K had not married PW, she was going to marry someone rich and connected. Seems her family wants artistocracy, not social media, entertainers, etc.
In the USA, we have classes, but it measn less and less. It is like a sliding scale. You can be up today and down and out tomorrow. Old money, new money, all the same. No money is no money.
many people may have a name, Kennedy 3rd generation grandkids and Rockefeller, for example, but no money. Just Upper Middle-Class. One ahs to keep marrying money and inheriting money and earning big money to keep it going. Trusts only last so long, for so many generations. Good example is Gloria Vanderbilt and her son ,Anderson Cooper. She was born when you had the terms old oney, tons of poor people, slim middle class. Her dad did not leave much. She had to make her money. She had a name. her son Anderson , has made his own. their Vanderbilt money dried up decades ago and even before he was born.
The days of idle rich, old money is kind of over. Who ????
In the USA, like UK, Kate and her family would be rich. Self -made. Applauded for having that selfmade, entrepreneual spirit.
Rich , I am not giving a certain x amount of liquid millions. Amonut of dollars and cents depends on region, lviing expenses, family size, spending and investment habits, etc.
Middle-Class is going to state university, having parents or being yourself of jobs/professions-teacher, postal worker, nurse, property owner, real estate agent, news rpeorter, journalist, police officer, pilot, flight attendant...etc.
I am not giving an x amount on income. The cost of lviing in American city x is higher than cost of living in American city y, and so the pay for an RN , school teacher, etc. here is different in Amer. x than Amer. city y.
Topic: Just what is "middle class"? (Read 4882 times)
