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(20,491 posts)superiority/inferiority towards those displaying/uttering these symbols of lower socioeconomic classes?
Is a person, once identified as a member of these lower classes, ever able to climb the ladder to a higher class (in the eyes of those already in such higher class, not monetarily)? Or is it, as I once read, a matter of it takes three generations to become a gentleman?
What do you perceive as the symbols of your class that are looked down upon by the class that is above you? What is considered unseemly by them? Do you take any time/effort eliminating those traits from yourself in a hope you will be perceived in a more favorable light by those in that higher class? If not, why not?
What do you perceive as symbols of the class above you that you aspire to attain?