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I would suggest that it is because you weren't brought up as a child here and have lived and worked in particularly middle class environments which are generally less aware or exposed to working class conditions, especially at the bottom end.
I was brought up in a middle class family and went into a middle class profession.
We holidayed in the South of France, parents had dinner parties and family country walks and picnics most Sundays.
Grew up in a village with nothing but fields behind the house and woods to play in.
I had no idea(to a point of it being obvious) that other kids weren't so lucky until I was in my teens and at secondary school.
One of my best mates at school lived in a house less than half the size of ours and had to share a bedroom with his two brothers, one older and one younger.
I had the top of the range trainers and ski jackets for school, along with Jaeger/Pringle/Lyle and Scott jumpers, he had to make do with mostly hand me downs from his brother.
When I got fed up with my drop handle racing bike and went onto mountain biking, it was a year before he was able to get a mountain bike and join the rest of us 'off the road'.
Had I chosen to attend a private school, I would most likely not have met that friend and would have been primarily mixing with children from a similar background - although I didn't want to go there because friends from the village school were going elsewhere, which is where I got my own way into attending.
When I was working, it was a case of socialising with people who had black tie Company Christmas parties at prestiguous hotels, wine bars and bistros, up market clubs and 'gastro pubs'.
Like many places in the UK, there is usually 'the other end of town' or places much like it where the shops aren't as boutique, the pubs are grubbier and the bus stops primarily serve council estates.
If you really want to understand and experience what working class means, then book a cheap bed and breakfast in Blackpool, use the bus and travel between there and Lytham St Annes and note the differences in shops, people, pubs, converstations, entertainment and eating.
There is nothing essentially wrong or bad with being working class, it's just a case of if you have the choice between living a middle class lifestyle in a middle class area or working class lifestyle in a working class area and you have experienced both, most sane people would be choosing 'middle class' - it's like a different world.
Note: I could transcribe the conversations and comments I hear at the bus stops, on buses and in the local councils estate areas and you would notice immediately how different it is to what you experience elsewhere.
There are plenty of lovely, kind and nice people around here, but there is also a far higher concentration of ignorant, racist biggots and simpletons that means I would have to bleep out a considerable amount of what comes out of their mouths. |
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Author: nabby
26-11-2019 00:14:41