Taste is a middle class concern.
If you want your kids to be middle class drones obsessed with not offending anyone then you can send them to another school. That’s not what Eton is about.
If you want your kids to be middle class drones obsessed with not offending anyone then you can send them to another school. That’s not what Eton is about.
Yeah, not so sure about that.
The working and upper classes have more similarities socially than do the middle and upper classes in a lot of ways.
Outgroup homogeneity bias — they’re both unlike us, therefore they’re both kinda the same!
Different social classes operate differently.
The British, on the other hand, have a very complex class system and a meaningful upper class. I wouldn’t recommend trying to transport your understanding of “class” across the Atlantic.
The working, middle and upper class in the UK behave in very different ways, it's definitional. This article is the citation.
I would bear in mind that British class is quite different to American class. It's far less to do with money here.