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British Social Life Pre-reading question Can you tell which class a person belong to from the paper that he or she is reading in the subway Britain? How are the British people classified into different classes? What are the 4 constituent countries in the UK? Is the British same as English? When was NHS came into effect? Focal points Two distinctions: job distinction and class distinction Different nationalities A welfare state The standard of living Concentration of population Job distinction Professionals Managerial and technical personnel Clerical and supervisory workers Semiskilled manual workers Class system (1)Class system dose exist in British society. (2)Most of the British population would claim themselves to be either of middle-class or working-class, though some people would actually belong to the upper middle-class or lower middle-class. (3)Class divisions are not simply economic, they are cultural as well. People of different classes may differ in the kind of newspapers they read in the way they speak and in the kind of education they receive. (4)One of the distinctive features about the British class system is that aristocratic titles can still be inherited. The Different Class Systems Multi-racial society and one sovereign state “we celebrate the diversity in our country, that go to make up Britain today” ---Tony Blair,2 October 2001 Different hair, skin and eye 300 different languages are spoken in London 17% of English people say they owe allegiance to England, not Britain (British Social Attitudes/Guardian); 66% of teenagers in England regard themselves as English not British. In Wales, 79% see themselves as Welsh, and in Scotland, 82% as Scottish (Sunday Times). Nationalities differences a multi-racial society: most are Christians and because of immigration, many are Muslims. The nationalities of the English, the Scottish, the Welsh and the Northern Irish are used to identify t