And the big unwritten rule about who is perceived as working class is that he's always implicitly white. Yes, he. Working class white women, if they're mentioned at all, are assumed to be the household members of the man with a manual job.
This isn't true for me professionally or personally, for what it's worth. But I think it's how it sometimes looks on the news, because working-class white people are "working-class", and Black and Asian working-class people are "poor" or "disadvantaged".
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Date: 2021-05-04 08:39 am (UTC)This isn't true for me professionally or personally, for what it's worth. But I think it's how it sometimes looks on the news, because working-class white people are "working-class", and Black and Asian working-class people are "poor" or "disadvantaged".