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Why Middle Class Lifestyle Could Screw You Up
If you’re from the UK, the concept of social classes wouldn’t be a strange topic to you. In fact, during everyday life, from people’s accent to areas we go to, there’re always an invisible boundary that separate the different classes. You would’ve thought that by now we’re modernised enough to ignore classes, as much as other forms of inequality between people, but obviously that’s not the case.
In fact, in 2013 BBC still bothered to publish a social class test to try helping people to understand where they sit in the modernised society. The poorest people are now labelled as “precariat”, and there’re new class groups such as ‘technical middle class’, as opposed established middle class.
Over the weekend, I went to the New Forest National Park in Hampshire with my middle class friends. In fact, we’re likely to all belong to the wealthiest class, which BBC called them the ‘elites’.
In our large cottage/mansion, we’ve pre-ordered expensive organic cuts of beef for barbecue, and of course, cases after cases of alcohol. After a night of bad sleep (most of us weren’t used to the mattresses), we had some local barn eggs for breakfast and set off to cycling in the park.
It wasn’t until we started riding these fancy mountain bikes did we realise how unfit we were. If you haven’t been to New Forest…
