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Social differences Some people understood that they could make money on different things, such as coal, which is mentioned on this page. They needed people to work for them. The British population increased very fast during the 19th century, and people needed to work. Cities such as London, Birmingham and Newcastle got extended in a very large scale, because everyone needed a place to live, still nearby where they worked. The result of this was that cheap houses were built, in instance like those on the picture below.



Notice the differences on the two pictures on this page. Each one of them are clearly setting their deep inpression on the cities and painting the picture of what the cities look like.

When entire neighborhoods are being adapted to certain classes in the society, it's natural to say that certain interests follow, such as jobs, shops and choise of leisure activities. They're all charaterizing neighbohoods and cities, for example is polo a sport that typically has been seen as a sport for the high class.

Other factors for why there are social differences are in instance how peple talk. People from the "London-Oxford-Cambridge triangle" are likely to talk with dialect from the upper class, and not a man from for example Newcastle where its more common to use slang and talk less "nice". Other factors like how you dress and what kind of people you associate with is also important when it comes to the social differences.



Now in more recent times, everyone is able to climb or fall in the class system. A guy from a poor family is fully able to make it up to the upper class by getting a good job if he really want to. I an other case, a rich man can get addicted to drugs and loose his job, finally ending up on the street as a poor man. In other words, a person is not "stick" to the class he or she has been "born into", which actually would be the reality for some centuries ago. This is however possible in all western countries, but maybe with an exception of USA. Most people are able to go to the university if they really want to, unlike in USA where your family or someone else actually need the money.

However, it's quite much about the general attitude, and not the opportunities everyone have. A boy from a working class family may say "I'm gonna be working man, that's what my family have been doing for generations". In other words, many may don't want to change the structure of the social classes.

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Sources: [] @http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language_in_England