Class System

There are four classes in England which shows how rich they are and what kind of job they have. Four classes are Upper class, Middle class, Working class and Under class. According to the internet, it is impossible to change their class in England. Moreover, they don't think that they want to go up because it's impossible. People are living in their class, so they hardly meet people belonging to other class. English can recognize class with how they speak, behave and their fashion. I would like to mention about difference below.



Upper class


Even Upper class, it is divided into two class, upper class and upper middle class. those who are upper class are aristocrats like royal family and politicians. Those who are upper middle class are lawyers, doctors and dentists. They are well educated. They live in dormitory from childhood and learn everything needed for upper class. We can see the difference with the way they speak. when upper class people speak, they don't move thier mouth much. They use polite word in conversation. there is rich list in England. According to it, the richest person have 10,800,000,000 pound and even the lowest person in rich list have 30,000,000 pound. It's amazing.



Middle class

Almost all of pupulation belong to this class. It is classified into more two in Middle class, middle and lower-middle class. I mentioned that it will be impossible to go up the class, but it is said on the internet that It is possible to go up the class within middle class. the jobs of upper Middle class are teachers and something like that. Lower-middle are office worker, small shopkeepers and etc.

Working class

Working class is divided into more two class, upper working class and lower working class. Those who belong to upper working class are working as an electritian, engineers, plumbers or carpentars and they have skilled. However lower working class people doesn't have skills so they are working as a manual workers such as helpers, labourers, cleaners, porters and dish washer, which doesn't need skill. They are not educated well, so the way they speak is very casual. Working class's fation is to put pierce, but mainly they don't care thier fation.

Underclass

Those who belongs to this class are people who doesn't have thier home. Perhaps, they live in box.

I found the web site concerning the living of Japanese in England. It said that if you want to be looked as high class, you had better wear nice cloth and speak slowly gazing at eyes of listener. Anyway, there is class system in England like the past in Japan and Japanese will be hard to imagine those cultures.

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