So - just to clarify what you're trying to say for my own understanding - upwardly mobile working class Americans seek to become middle class themselves, whereas the upwardly mobile working class British seek for their children or grandchildren to become middle class?
(It makes me wonder whether Americans don't cling to class as much as the British because Americans have nationality-of-origin as proof of their roots, and the British don't, but I'll be the first to admit that I know nothing).
Although Martha, from Doctor Who... I've always wondered if she self-identifies as working class or middle class. Yes, she's a doctor (near enough) when we meet her, with white coat, stethoscope and answers. But the accent and family don't code as middle class so much to me, for various reasons. And accent has a lot to do with it, despite the London medical school.
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So - just to clarify what you're trying to say for my own understanding - upwardly mobile working class Americans seek to become middle class themselves, whereas the upwardly mobile working class British seek for their children or grandchildren to become middle class?
(It makes me wonder whether Americans don't cling to class as much as the British because Americans have nationality-of-origin as proof of their roots, and the British don't, but I'll be the first to admit that I know nothing).
Although Martha, from Doctor Who... I've always wondered if she self-identifies as working class or middle class. Yes, she's a doctor (near enough) when we meet her, with white coat, stethoscope and answers. But the accent and family don't code as middle class so much to me, for various reasons. And accent has a lot to do with it, despite the London medical school.