The class system in your country

[RINO Tom]

I get where they're coming from, but (in an almost self defense-type way) I have to chuckle at some goony-lookin' grad student in Starbucks who smells like onions and doesn't enjoy any more things about life than I do looking down on me for my lack of "class" because I don't do the things they do.  The idea that class is ... well, about however "worldly" or whatever ridiculous metric this "urban gentry" or whatever the hell they like to call themselves ... is just kind of ridiculous.  If that's "class," then it's not an enviable thing.

[RINO Tom]

I think this is pretty apt:

http://monthlyreview.org/2006/07/01/six-points-on-class/

Interesting article, thanks.