What are You?

[Florestan]

LMC --- and proud!

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

I know this is for fun rather than scientific study, but the classification items are not mutually exclusive (or jointly covering the entire sample.) It is because they are not based on a single, same factor. Ie. Classification for automobiles owned, red car (color), Japanese (nation), sedan (shape), diesel, etc.

Plus, Bourgeoisie may mean rich class for non-French speaking people though it may mean middle class to some people.

[Florestan]

I know this is for fun rather than scientific study,

Precisely --- vote accorrdingly!

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Precisely --- vote accorrdingly!

I didn't see A**hole, so I need time to pick the most accurate category for me.

[Florestan]

Bourgeoisie may mean rich class for non-French speaking people though it may mean middle class to some people.

True.

Whatever, pick your choice or explain your choice.

[Florestan]

I didn't see A**hole, so I need time to pick the most accurate category for me.

Fixed.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Fixed.

I was pleasantly surprised to see that you kindly added a category of asshole for me, and potentially some other members. This is what I call camaraderie. Thanks a lot and God bless you.

[Florestan]

I was pleasantly surprised to see that you kindly added a category of asshole for me, and potentially some other members.

I aim to please!

This is what I call camaraderie. Thanks a lot and God bless you.

You too, my friend, you too!

[Brian]

Strictly speaking by US income calculations, I chose higher middle class as I am in the top 25-30% of salary earners, but besides going on very nice vacations, eating very nice food, and listening to lots of classical music, I do not live like a higher middle class person. Rent a small 75 year old house, drive a bad old car, don't have a lot of fancy clothes, don't buy a new iPhone every single year, save or donate around 20-25% of my income, etc.

[Mandryka]

Champagne Socialist.

[Florestan]

Champagne Socialist.

Aka caviar left, right? 

Iow, bourgeois through and through. 

[Mandryka]

Aka caviar left, right? 

Not in English as far as I know.

When I was a university teacher I remember a student, a communist student,  once accused me of being an academic member of the lumpen proletariat.

[Florestan]

When I was a university teacher I remember a student once accused me of being an academic member of the lumpen proletariat.

And I think he was absolutely right.

Champagne Socialist - a person who espouses socialist ideals while enjoying a wealthy and luxurious lifestyle.

It's you all right, ain't it?

[Mandryka]

And I think he was absolutely right.

Champagne Socialist - a person who espouses socialist ideals while enjoying a wealthy and luxurious lifestyle.

It's you all right, ain't it?

Slightly wealthier since my friend Petru introduced me to Tamaioasa Romaneasca. Very tasty and dirt cheap compared with Alsace Gewurtztraminer.

[vandermolen]

Champagne Socialist definitely!

[Florestan]

Slightly wealthier since my friend Petru introduced me to Tamaioasa Romaneasca. Very tasty and dirt cheap compared with Alsace Gewurtztraminer.

Hah! 

Well, I I like Gewürztraminer, I really do --- but Tămâioasă Românească is indeed something else.

Now that I think of my original question in a slightly more serious way, I can split my answer in several categories.

My attitude towards money is rather aristocratic --- I never do any bookkeeping and I never refrain from buying whatever I fancy buying at the time --- and not only myself, but I also enocurage and support my wife and son to do the same. Needless to say, we live on perpetual bank debt. Also, I never refrain from lending to relatives, friends or even simple acquaintances --- even though I have had bad experiences in the past.

My attitude towards social values is rather bourgeois --- convinced familist which occasionally peeps porn. No gay marriage and adoptions whatsoever, no abortions save in extreme cases, convinced yet not very church-going Christian, anti-PC, anti-SJW.

My attitude towards politics is rather aristocratic again --- the best regime imo is a constitutional monarchy, where the hereditary head of state is not only far and above petty political quarrels but alos able and willing to curtail the power of sectiional parties in the interest of the society as a whole if need be.

[Florestan]

Champagne Socialist definitely!

I won't add a new option, though --- in my book, Champagne Socialist is Higher Middle Class / Bourgeois.

[vandermolen]

I won't add a new option, though --- in my book, Champagne Socialist is Higher Middle Class / Bourgeois.

My daughter put it as her 'Facebook status' a few years ago after I accused her of being one when, despite being deeply concerned with social/political injustice, she attended the 'Henley Regatta' - a very posh event on the Thames.

[Brian]

Interesting, what you Europeans call a "Champagne socialist" we Americans call a "limousine liberal." Though Champagne drinking is surely more common than limousine riding!

[Florestan]

My daughter put it as her 'Facebook status' a few years ago after I accused her of being one when, despite being deeply concerned with social/political injustice, she attended the 'Henley Regatta' - a very posh event on the Thames.

Don't get me wrong, Jeffrey, your daughter is a very classy lady which I'd be honored to meet --- but politically I'd rather take a sincere, committed and poor-as-a-church-mouse Socialist / Communist over her "Socialism".