Friday, 2 May 2008

The British Middle Class

From the report, I found two points of view. One is the gap of middle class and working classe has been reducing, both the percentage of population and the wealth of the two classes. The other one is that although the gap of two classes has reduced a lot, there are still many differences between the two classes and the two classes also have their each specialities.
The numbers of people from the two classes are very closed now and the middle class will overtake in ten years after. The wealth gap between the two classes is £104,000, definitely it is not a larger number. Not only the gap between the two triditional classes reduced, but also there are some new kind of classes, such as ROBs, HEWs, SALs, etc. These kinds of people alos takes a larger percentage of population of Britain. All these classes mix together in the UK society and the borders between these classes are getting more and more indistinct.
There are also clear differences between the two classes. The income of the two classes almost be similar, but to use the money, the two classes have different choices. The middle class spends more money on investments and deposit more money in the bank. They have much more properties than working class. The differences are not just on money, but also on education, type of jobs and some other aspects. The most interestingly difference is that middle class is more meany than working class. Thats quite funny.

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