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How do you determine someone's class when you have just met them and without a family pedigree, college transcripts, curriculum vita, and net worth statement.
Just cause someone is driving a Porsche, doesn't mean he/she is upper class. And just cause someone is wearing no-label clothes and driving a 10 year old honda, it doesn't mean he/she is lower class.
So how do you know what someone's "class" is when you meet them?
Last edited by brokensky; 12-14-2011 at 10:40 AM..
How do you determine someone's class when you have just met them and without a family pedigree, college transcripts, curriculum vita, and net worth statement.
Just cause someone is driving a Porsche, doesn't mean he/she is upper class. And just cause someone is wearing no-label clothes and driving a 10 year old honda, it doesn't mean he/she is lower class.
So how do you know what someone's "class" is when you meet them?
For some people, it's pretty obvious.
For others, well, that's why you get to know them!
In either case, material objects can cover up class. If you wish to determine it, see how they talk, see who they hang out with, see what their taste are, etc. Anybody can buy nice stuff and pretend to be something they aren't, but until you actually get to know them, you have no clue.
Last edited by southseeker; 12-14-2011 at 10:54 AM..
Just cause someone is driving a Porsche, doesn't mean he/she is upper class. And just cause someone is wearing no-label clothes and driving a 10 year old honda, it doesn't mean he/she is lower class.
So true. My poorest friend drives a more expensive car than my wealthiest friend.
I'm a professional (very educated, etc.), from a stable (yet kinda wacky, but whose isn't?) family where money is not a real issue. My most recent gf (who I may still end up with) comes from no money and had a tough childhood. Almost everything about our backgrounds is very different. But I wouldn't trade my experience with her for anything. She's such an attractive, amazing, ambitious, sweet person.
I have a lady friend who is from a family with money and will only date guys with similar backgrounds. She won't admit it of course, but it's obvious. I've set her up with guys who are a tall, handsome (confirmed by other women) and have good jobs. But because they are not of her 'class', she's not interested. She's the stereotypical "I'll date a shlub with money over a good-looking, cool dude with regular dough" type of chick. Thing is, she's alone a lot because lots of those dudes date bimbos.
Now, we all have our preferences and I'm not saying she should date some guy living in a van down by the river. Rather that she's so rigid in her 'class' views that she really misses out.
Last edited by DrVanNostren; 12-14-2011 at 10:45 AM..
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I think like tends to stick with like. There aren't any hard and fast rules, but people of the same socioeconomic, educational, professional levels will date each other, because those are the people in their circles. A CEO may sleep with his secretary, but he's probably not going to be taking her to a fundraising benefit or view her as wife material.
How do you determine someone's class when you have just met them and without a family pedigree, college transcripts, curriculum vita, and net worth statement.
Just cause someone is driving a Porsche, doesn't mean he/she is upper class. And just cause someone is wearing no-label clothes and driving a 10 year old honda, it doesn't mean he/she is lower class.
So how do you know what someone's "class" is when you meet them?
Exactly.
You are a class act my friend - and that "class" has absolutely nothing to do with your annual income or financial holdings
Only people with no class even think about "class" or socioeconomic groups when choosing who to date
Very true.
But you have to agree on some extent, that most people will at least think about it subconsciously. For example, I would never date someone who has had criminal record and poor and/or has no outlook for their life other than smoke weed and just scrape by, because we practically got nothing in common.
I think the line is blurred somewhat between preferences and class honestly, just like it is with race. Some people, even though they won't openly admit it, feel more comfortable only dating their own because it's not uncharted territory.
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