I have a techie coming to fix my computer. These are much harder to get into political conversation than plumbers/builders/electricians etc, but I shall give it a go. As you know, interrogating my countrymen and women on their political thoughts is a hobby of mine.
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He will, of course, also be assessed on his liking of dogs and acceptance of tea. Last one was 30s, black, working class & male & he was socially conservative, economically leftist, dog-loving, tea-declining. This told me a lot.
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This one sounds like he is 20s, Indian, middle-class & male. Demographically, he is likely to be conservative generally, dog-rejecting & tea-loving. But as I said, he's also much less likely to discuss his politics with me coz tech people tend to be single-focused.
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Question about "middle-class" in a British context. "Techie" seems like a blue-collarish job, so what makes him middle rather than working class? Just an accent and manner of speaking that you wouldn't hear from a ditch digger?
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Middle-class accent, yes. Also, no, techie is not considered blue-collar but college graduates making good money.
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As a non-Brit, economic classes having accents is odd. I thought middle-class roughly meant "vaguely posh bourgeoisie", David Mitchell being the stereotypical example. In most places, if you can tell a person's economic class by their speech, they're unemployable juggalo types.
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See what my fellow Brits do whenever I post a video of me speaking. They place me socially & geographically. They almost never fail. This doesn't say a lot about my economic status tho.
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