June 15, 1999 at 12:00 am
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The British are fond of saying that “everyone in America is middle class”; in other words, we don’t like to admit that, yes, socioeconomic class structure exists in America. It does. I recommend Paul Fussell’s book Class for a slightly outdated primer on American class structure.
According to Fussell’s definitions, you are ‘X’ class. Outside of the traditional three, X refers to the educated underclass of loan-paying lecturers, Ph.D. candidates, fellowship recipients and people trying to make a living in the arts.
According to these definitions, you were born into one economic class, and through education (schooling or living) are able to live in another.
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