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People of lower classes
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Having worked in a Service Station for many years I suppose I would be called low class.
The job bought me into contact with people from each end of the class/social scale and all those inbetween, serving ordinary 'working man', company MD's, film/TV stars, Royalty (even they need petrol!).
In my humble low-class opinion, I truly believe that someone's social standing bears no relation to their use of commom courtesies. Mentioning no names, I have been snarled at by a certain TV celebrities and 'posh' folk, showing not one degree of good manners, whereas others have been politeness personified. The same goes for what some may label as lower class.
So Marmaduke, class (however it's defined) , wealth or social standing bears no relation to peoples use of manners and courtesy.
No this is not a wind-up, and I think you've got the wrong end of the stick. I am not talking about pleasantries such as saying 'Good morning' or bowing. I am talking about not being able to restrain oneself from fighting in a pub or swearing the house down while having a row or playing loud music in cars or houses, without care for others.
It maybe says something about inverted snobbery that this question should be found offensive.
And many are going off on tangents and not replying to Marmaduke's original words - often the case on this board.
Some people are rude and some people are not. It has nothing to do with class.
Fighting in pubs - you should hear the accents and see the addresses of some of the drunks i have to treat in A & E every weekend.
Noisy rows in the home - how many so called upper class houses have neighbours close enough to hear the language used?
Bad manners exist in all walks of life, sad but true.
When I was at university the majority of the student population were lower-middle/ working class. On wedensday evenings and after weekend matches, our student bar was regularly filled with different sporting teams who all got along well and had a great time.
The exception to this rule was the rugby club who were made up of approximately 90 per cent former public school pupils - what marmaduke might term middle and upper-midde class.
They got everyone's backs up by being loud, crass and overbearing singing crude and sexist songs and occassionally taking their clothes off. Just plain anti-social in fact.
I'm no prude and have to admit found it all quite funny. the fact was a lot of people didn't see it the same way but this didn't deter the rugby club. it seemed as if they felt because of their privileged upbringing there was no need to behave in the same manner as everyone else.
it's not just rugby players. i've lost count of the number of times i've seen 'upper class' people be downright rude and disrepectful in restaurants, aeroplanes and many other situations. especially to people like serving staff, just because they see other people as occupying a lower social strata.
However, they'll come to regret it when the revolution comes...