Middle class people: do you honestly hold negative bias towards working class individuals?

Posted by toastandjam97@reddit | AskUK | View on Reddit | 568 comments

This is a genuine question, I know that as a country we have a very deep history with our class system and lots of people will have unconscious bias. But I am wondering if anyone does have active negative thoughts towards working class people.? I am a northern woman in her late twenties, I went to state school and that’s my highest level of education, I’ve always worked since being 14, often multiple jobs. I’m interested in history, music, food, try and teach myself things where I can BUT I find that whenever I come into contact with more middle class people as soon as they find this out or find out I work in retail/ a warehouse job. They immediately change their approach to me and aren’t willing to really have friendly convo! Even though I know I can ‘keep up’ with the conversation topic this often happens when I meet my friends other friends ( my friends went to the same school as me but have gone on to higher education and therefore met more wealthy/ middle class friends along the way ). I’m wondering if anyone will openly admit they wouldn’t really want to converse with someone or be friends with someone who is working class and their reasons explaining why?