And it's very, very different in Argentina. For example, here, upper-middle class people send their kids to college, all of them, with not much trouble. Middle class struggles a little more but mostly succeeds and blue-collar working-class (or low-middle class) class tries but doesn't always succeed. College is, basically, the way up (or used to be), not only economically but culturally. (College is free so it's a lot more massive than in the USA). Of course, the crisis has shrunk the middle class and low-middle class has gone down in most cases. The level of comfort, however, is quite different. I mean, things that are not-so-rare for a middle class family in USA/Western Europe (say, consoles or computers), here are a luxury that only the upper-middle-class might get. And then we have the poor, who mostly don't manage to eat on a regular basis.
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Date: 2008-02-27 08:22 pm (UTC)For example, here, upper-middle class people send their kids to college, all of them, with not much trouble. Middle class struggles a little more but mostly succeeds and blue-collar working-class (or low-middle class) class tries but doesn't always succeed. College is, basically, the way up (or used to be), not only economically but culturally. (College is free so it's a lot more massive than in the USA). Of course, the crisis has shrunk the middle class and low-middle class has gone down in most cases.
The level of comfort, however, is quite different. I mean, things that are not-so-rare for a middle class family in USA/Western Europe (say, consoles or computers), here are a luxury that only the upper-middle-class might get.
And then we have the poor, who mostly don't manage to eat on a regular basis.