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Old 10-21-2015, 06:45 AM   #16
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Originally Posted by Rustybarge View Post
OK, so here in the UK and Ireland 80-90% of people consider themselves to be middle class. This includes people like nurses, bank cashiers, social workers up to lawyers, accountants and managers of companies .

Less than 10% are lower class by their own definition.

And of course the 1% super rich.

I'm interested in the American class system because of the black and Latino population .

Are their many more lower class people in the states, and less middle class ?

Might be like that here (80-89, 10, 1).

Not sure about ethnic population of low-income groups. I suspect there's one very vocal minority... and then several others including Asians and Middle-Easterners who just get on with life. In my own work background, the number of "middle-class" (economically-speaking) blacks and Latinos (and others) is very much in line with the overall population distribution.

Lots of yapping about "the rich." For many of us that only translates to the 1-percenters. For many of the more vocal "less rich" is seems to be used as a very broad brush: anyone above poverty level must be "obscenely rich."

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