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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Replying to @HPluckrose
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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It's very much down to accent here. Upper class people can be poor. Working class people can be rich. The middle class breaks into upper middle, middle middle and lower middle. David Mitchell is at the top of middle middle, bottom of upper middle. I am middle middle middle.
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Is middle class vs working class sort of like "acting white" vs "keeping it real"?
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Replying to @clifford_banes
No. Much much older. Predates our racial diversity by centuries. We didn't really have black Brits until the 50s and South Asian Brits until the 80s. They kind of slot in to pre-existing categories depending on their British accent.
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eg, I have exactly the same accent as Maajid Nawaz. This places us both in middle, middle class families in Essex. We would be expected to come from professional parents but not linked to the aristocracy.
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Whereas someone like Richard Dawkins, Stephen Fry etc, you know come from families that have land, went to public (boarding) schools, have at least a 'right honourable' in their recent history/extended family.
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