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Can you become upper class?

be okay I wouldn't want to be but but could you be just start off with um uh I think if you're talking upper upper class then it's something you're borned into no I can I'm work...

Course: Big questions in societySection: Social class in the UKSubtitles: en

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be okay I wouldn't want to be but but

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could you be just start off with um uh I

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think if you're talking upper upper

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class then it's something you're borned

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into no I can I'm working to middle but

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I can never be upper and I don't think

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I'd ever want to be upper either can

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someone who isn't upper in the upper

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class ever go down

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to lower lower middle no maybe no

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probably not cuz their value system

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their value system is going to be

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ingrained isn't it how come you can

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change when only there is a restriction

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on how much I think even even if you

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start a middle class and you earn lots

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of money I don't think you can tip into

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the upper class because I think what

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maybe just here in England that is a lot

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of generational wealth and it's a lot

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history towards it you are born into up

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class you know I don't I don't know if

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you can move into up class with the

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amount of money you have I think it I

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think class there is a culture thing I

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think nowadays maybe in the past you

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couldn't go up to the upper class but

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nowadays it seems that you can so for

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example the Middleton would have been ah

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middle class definitely middle class but

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perhaps their children and grandchildren

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now would be upper class if you see the

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circles that they move in and how

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they're accepted and how people aspire

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to be

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