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Article: Face it, you're middle class and the dice are loaded against you.(Column)
- Article from:
- The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- January 28, 2007
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Byline: PETER DOBBIE
THE middle classes, it seems, are in denial.
People - not you and me - have been surveyed as to how they see themselves.
They are mainly comfortably off and well educated. But they seem to want to assert working-class roots to establish their credibility.
With pop stars, this is understandable. They big up their popularity and fortunes with songs often lionising the working class while ensuring their own children are brought up well away from the people they entertain.
In fact, the working class is now largely a mythological tribe.
Most people are middle class or aspire to be so. What we now see ...