Hello and welcome to Easy Stories in English,
the podcast that will take your English from OK to good and from good to great.
I am Ariel Goodbody, your host for this show.
Today's episode is a conversation about class.
This is one of the most particular and touchy aspects of British society and culture.
This is the one thing that if you understand it, you will understand how the UK runs.
Social class.
upper class, middle class, working class.
This is something that exists, I think, in all cultures and societies around the world.
There are some countries that claim to have eliminated class in their political systems,
but it pretty much exists in one form or another in all societies around the world.
However, in the UK, class is a very complex multidimensional issue.
It's a combination of economic, historical and cultural factors.
And that's what I really want to focus on today.
The cultural aspects of class.
Now, I'm titling this episode.
Who is middle class?
Because middle class identity is really where a lot of these questions form.
Middle classness in the UK has such particular associations,
it has such particular ideals, tastes, representations,