Whilst here, it means someone in the immediate family holds a title. They may or may not be wealthy or successful but usually are the former
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The relatively poor social mobility stats from the US mean there is a class system that holds down the poor. In UK class/breeding snobbery
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Yes. Anyone in the UK who heard me speak would say 'middle middle class'. I couldn't be confused with say, Stephen Fry.
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Broadly, yes. Ideas around class are very different here (ditto manifestations of classism)
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I'd say rich. You don't always have to be successful to become rich out there, there's lots of old money.
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In Sweden you can tell only by their silly nicknames and in which borough or suburb they live. (Very few of those).
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In America we can differentiate between lower and upper, but the gradations of the middle class are a little harder to work out.
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Doesn’t help that there’s a belief that there isn’t a class structure in this country.
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There's an element of 'old money' to it: families that have been rich and successful for generations, but not aristocrats in the Euro sense
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the wealth in the US is pretty much all new money. most get rich in tech, finance, and business management. inheritance is a small slice
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and american generational wealth tends to evaporate in three generations, as i understand it
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Is there a particular reason for that? Old money families do exist over there but clearly much of it is new as you say
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my guess is that “trust fund babies” never get the practical experience the folks who build the wealth get, so they handle it poorly
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but i only have guesses
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Sounds plausible
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Upper class in Canada considered the super rich. The class system in the UK is different... we don’t have titles that get passed down.
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Sometimes yes, sometimes no.
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Not exactly. They're usually people w good professional jobs who probably have investments. But no one would complain if you used it thus.
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Upper Class is the millionaires Upper Middle Class is wealthy professionals like doctors and lawyers. Titles are weird and alien to Yanks.
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