The degree of class issues isn’t as conscious in the US (although by many metrics there’s actually less class mobility in the US) but it still comes across as both funny and insightful.
For a historical perspective, take a look at John C. Calhoun’s statements on the need for racial hierarchy precisely to avoid the rise of class divisions among white Americans.
The degree of class issues isn’t as conscious in the US (although by many metrics there’s actually less class mobility in the US) but it still comes across as both funny and insightful.
Someone, (whose identity I can’t recall, some commentator or comedian) said that the British have class in the same way Americans have race.
Not sure how true that is, but a middle class Indian person probably has more in common with a middle class white person in the UK.
For a historical perspective, take a look at John C. Calhoun’s statements on the need for racial hierarchy precisely to avoid the rise of class divisions among white Americans.