Did anyone see Friday's Oprah?  What things signify "high class" or "low class" to you?
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High: good jobs, nice cars, and many more\nLow: smoking, long nails, bad clothes, bad teeth, and many more
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Often, not always, welathy think their material wealth makes them inherently better people.  Often the opposite is true.  Many times wealthy demonstrate more character flaws than do middle class working individuals.  If your car ever breaks down it won't be a rich person who stops and helps--it will be a middle class or poor person.  I walked out of a shopping mall to find I had a dead battery late one night and I asked a nice BMW owner for a jump (i had cables in my trunk.)  He shook his head and said, "No."\n\nIn a poetic twist of fate that only O. Henry would appreciate, about two weeks later I drove past this guy while he was getting out of his car with a blown out tire.  It was late one evening and I was returning from a high school basketball game that had just ended.  I stopped to help him and I recognized him immediately.  He thanked me for stopping.  Once I saw him and laughed and reminded him of his refusal to help me with my dead battery.  He apologized and said he was in a hurry that day.  I smiled and said, "What do you know.  I'm in a hurry tonight.  Good luck, Pal."\n\nYes, I know I was just like him.  But perhaps for the first time in his life he understood how the shoe felt on HIS foot.  I may have helped him more by leaving him deserted on that lonely stretch of road than I could have ever helped him by changing his spare tire for him.
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We upper class only like to associate ourselves with others who, like ourselves are financially overendowed.\n\nOnce you meet the required standards, do not fear, we shall invite you to join our social outings, and expensive get togethers aboard our yachts.
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You probably mean déclassé, pronounced a bit like day-class-ay.\n\nIt means lower-class, beneath the dignity of the speaker.
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Middle class values include a desire for social respectability, material wealth, and an emphasis on the family and education. That so much reminds me of the late and great Ronnie Barker: "I look up to him because he is upper-class. I look down on him because he is lower-class. I am middle-class."  Great comedian.  (Oh, and by the way, I'm a cross between working/middle class - don't care tuppence about the first two values above, but the second two are very important to me, and as for socialising, I just go with the flow!).
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Where did you get your info telling you that not too many people like Dr. Phil????  I personally think he's a man who know's his stuff and tells it like it is without pulling any punches. He's been in the psychology business for quite a while and very successful, I might add. Oprah helped him launch his show after he helped her win her "mad cow" beef lawsuit several years ago.  He doesn't claim to solve individual or family problems in 1 hour but steers his guests in the right direction while offering free assistance in the guest's home town.  He is a man who is sincere, truly cares and wants to make a difference in the lives of those who come on his show.  As for his wife Robin, she seems nice but I get the impression she wants to be the complete and perfect trophy wife for Dr. Phil (looks like she has had plastic surgery and major stuff done to her teeth). You'd have to look at photos of her in her younger days to see what I mean.  She seems very high maintenance.  Maybe I am wrong on that but I also agree she prolly wears the pants in the family while giving the impression she is a meek and quiet spouse.
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Didn't you mean "What do you think of celebrity baby names?" Just kidding.  Actually, this is something that I think about often.  I believe that my generation will begin to witness the demise of the middle class (by which I mean the lower and middle middle classes, not the upper middle class).  The reasons for this breakdown are, I imagine, extremely complex, and I doubt very much that I am qualified to render a competent analysis.  I will speculate that the most fundamental cause of this phenomenon is complacency.  This generation of people seems genuinely unconcerned with any kind of political education, which need not be formal at all.  As long as people really are more interested in what goes on in the tabloids than the political and social forces that are eroding our society as we know it, social and governmental elites will continue to protect their own interests at the expense of those from whom, theoretically at least, they derive their power.  Change requires recognition, and as long as we bury our collective heads in the sand, nothing will be done.  This nation seems to be following the path of all fallen empires.  We are so incredibly overextended that taking care of the needs of the bulk of our own population is simply no longer a primary concern.  The number of people in this country living without access to health care bears this out, and this is by no means the only issue faced by the lower and middle classes.  We will either wise up, or experience the kind of unrest and violence that such social divides inevitably bring.  I hope for the former, but expect the latter.
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I hope it lasts 2 seasons.  I loved that woman, Paulara, (or however her name was spelled.)  I don't like the slutty clothes the dancers wear, tho.  My little bro was watching with me, & I told him to cover his eyes.  Otherwise, I think it's a really cute show, & it looks like a lot of fun to play.  Since you like those kinds of shows, does anyone know what happened to the rich list on Fox?  I really liked that show.
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Essentially it's saying (at least to me)...\n"My kind are conservative, we have basic family values, and we're a little bit ignorant (but we don't really care)... and we're upset because our kind isn't looked at favorably by Hollywood and corporate media... and not even by Dubya and his corporate butt-kissers.  But we're going to keep doing what we do and thinking what we think, regardless."\n\nMy take on it, at least...
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It's pretty good for entertainment value. I like Oprah when she's not trying to help me change my life or be in her book club. Jerry Springer sux!!!
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How about a Haiku .... this one isn't perfect but it's a start ...\n\nOde to Oprah\nA woman of great renown\nBeauty, fame and fortune
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Does liking matzo ball soup make you jewish? ---not so much...so you are fine watching Oprah.\n\nGood for you for noticing that you are secure with yourself....even though you may be a bit insecure about it.
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The big O.  Oprah Winfrey
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Mostly Tennessee white trash, but with a little bit of Rhode Island Italian immigrant and North Carolina Cherokee thrown in to keep things interestingly on edge.\n\nDon't know if that counts as a social class, but hey, this is America, they are all made up anyway.
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Reminds me of that song that you can find on the soundtrack of Chicago (the movie) : Class. " Wathever happen to class?".\n\nThings have changed, it's not like in the 50's or the 40's . The times of Clark Gable and Cary Grant are long gone..... I believe that the ones now with class are mainly the oldest actors of this time, like DeNiro, Nicholson.... to me, they have class because they are growing old so well and still acting in good movies. Even if Nicholson has a weird personal life, his movie Something's gotta give showed his aging talent and class.
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I haven't seen it but I would watch it if I wasn't working. :( I have my mother watch it for me and she gives me the highlights (I know, give me a break, okay...lol). The previews look hilarious!! It is definitely my kind of humor. :)
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The people who are consider royality or in the upper class lived in castles, and have servants. They wear bright colors to show that they are rich, and they also wear jewlers.(which is not to common for lower class people. They would have tutors come to their castle, and they will have dancing class, and others...... And of course, you wouldn't have to do any work, cause u got servants..