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potato3732842 | on: #42056759
> find middle class folk (in the UK) to be uptight and terribly afraid of causing/receiving offence

This isn't just a UK thing. Seems fairly universal at least across the western world.

naming_the_user | parent
Right. In Britain at least at some point this flips and if you're proper old money you go back to not giving a shit again. Classic example is Prince Philip.
HPsquared | root | parent
Middle class is always more insecure. A middle-class individual could move either up or down, this causes anxiety.