Henry (my Scottish housemate) used a phrase that I have only heard uttered by people from the UK and Ireland. He said something about the “working class.” I mentioned that in the US, we don’t use that phrase and his response was, “What do you call them?” My thought was, who is them? It’s a really telling thing I think… Americans really don’t tend to think in those types of Marxist “classes,” we do talk in real vague terms like poor, rich, and middle class, but not “working.”<\/p>\n
After all, everyone “works” in the US, even Bill Gates works… We’ve never had an aristocracy. For me, using the term “working class” is a little repulsive. It assumes that there is an entire group of people that are only good for a certain type of job. As the economy continues to change, there will be fewer and fewer blue collar jobs, the Brits will have to come up with a better description…<\/p>\n
Henry (my Scottish housemate) used a phrase that I have only heard uttered by people from the UK and Ireland. He said something about the “working class.” I mentioned that in the US, we don’t use that phrase and his response was, “What do you call them?” My thought was, who is them? It’s a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}