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<blockquote data-quote="Ffermer Bach" data-source="post: 7739684" data-attributes="member: 51054"><p>well paid professional jobs, tend to go to children of well paid professionals, there is some kind of "leg up" into the professions from their parents, so advantage leads to advantage. However a lot of well paid professionals try to identify themselves as Working Class, and will also tell a convoluted story, "my great grandfather was a miner" etc, to prove they are working class. This is a way of saying, I have got this advantage in life, because of my hard work, not because of the advantage of my birth. The upshot of this is, the advantage of parents (or disadvantage of coming from a disadvantaged background) and subsequent outcome in life is seen as a product of your own "hard work" and not inbuilt bias. This allows social injustice to continue over generations, without any guilt. We had a little period in the middle of the last century where through Grammar Schools those born with social disadvantage were able to advance through their own hard work and innate ability (Such as Maggie becoming PM, I know she was not socially disadvantaged, but she equally did not come from the "top drawer" either). However with the stopping of Grammar Schools and the Labour Party no longer really having working class MP's both those roads to advancement have been closed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ffermer Bach, post: 7739684, member: 51054"] well paid professional jobs, tend to go to children of well paid professionals, there is some kind of "leg up" into the professions from their parents, so advantage leads to advantage. However a lot of well paid professionals try to identify themselves as Working Class, and will also tell a convoluted story, "my great grandfather was a miner" etc, to prove they are working class. This is a way of saying, I have got this advantage in life, because of my hard work, not because of the advantage of my birth. The upshot of this is, the advantage of parents (or disadvantage of coming from a disadvantaged background) and subsequent outcome in life is seen as a product of your own "hard work" and not inbuilt bias. This allows social injustice to continue over generations, without any guilt. We had a little period in the middle of the last century where through Grammar Schools those born with social disadvantage were able to advance through their own hard work and innate ability (Such as Maggie becoming PM, I know she was not socially disadvantaged, but she equally did not come from the "top drawer" either). However with the stopping of Grammar Schools and the Labour Party no longer really having working class MP's both those roads to advancement have been closed. [/QUOTE]
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