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		potato3732842 on Nov 6, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Only 5.3% of US welders are women. After years as ... > find middle class folk (in the UK) to be uptight and terribly afraid of causing/receiving offence This isn't just a UK thing. Seems fairly universal at least across the western world.

naming_the_user on Nov 6, 2024 [–]

Right. In Britain at least at some point this flips and if you're proper old money you go back to not giving a shit again. Classic example is Prince Philip.

HPsquared on Nov 6, 2024 | [–]

Middle class is always more insecure. A middle-class individual could move either up or down, this causes anxiety.

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