Name: The SOCIAL CLASS System... EXPLAINED | Easy English 191
Uploaded: 2025-01-31T13:13:53.000Z
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What class would you say you are right now?

Could you ever be upper class, do you think?

If you're not white, you can never be upper class.

Why would you say that you are working class?

Because I still work 50 hours a week in a shop at Aldi.

Do you have aspirations to change your class?

I'd say it's education, it's upbringing, it's culture, and undoubtedly it's also money.

Probably more towards the working class side of it, because, well, I just lost my job.

Our value system is going to be ingrained, isn't it?

I'm much more concerned about underprivileged people who do not have things they should have, like a home and a job.

I mean, he's got more money than God, and he's certainly not going to be considered upper class.

Welcome to a new episode of Easy English.

So I'm on Brighton's Seafront today, and I want to approach the topic of class.

In the UK, we have a structure of social classes which look like this, starting at lower class and ending at upper class.

But today, I want to know what the people of Brighton think about this scale.

I want to know which social class the people of Brighton think they categorise themselves into.

I want to know what categories can define you, and if just your state of mind can affect your social status.

I want to hear about the stigmas attached to the upper and lower classes, and if the class system is a relevant or helpful structure.

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Do you know what class you are in the UK?

Traditionally, working class, in terms of my background, definitely working class.

I'll say I was born into the working class.

I would place myself in the middle class.

Because I still work 50 hours a week in my shop at Aldi.

I was born into the working class, and luckily, like, I got out of that, like, cycle because of, like, going to university.

As somebody who's been, had the good fortune to be able to go to a university and spend my professional life in higher education, I think that probably places me in the middle class.

Why would you say that you are lower, lower middle?

Because of my income and my job occupation.

I mean, I don't know what the definition of middle class is, apart from if you own your own house, maybe.

Have you always been lower, lower middle?

Now, I think, and probably more towards the working class side of it, because, well, I just lost my job.

I've definitely changed, but it wasn't intentional.

It was just because, I suppose, I went into professions and became a manager and was able to buy a house.

And I suppose that makes me call myself that, because if I was really still working class, I'd probably be in social housing or renting, I would imagine.

If you move away from a rental market and you go and own your house, you become middle class.

You don't have to work to own your house.

When you own your house, you're probably middle class.

Because you went to a nice, fancy school?

I went to a private school when I was small, younger.

And how would you get into a private school?

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