tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179048494901365426.post4644558574244254037..comments2024-01-16T03:21:37.695-08:00Comments on Gancho: Middle Class Identity in Mexicopchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13973333514392213258noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179048494901365426.post-69915021565549338722011-07-29T11:23:04.624-07:002011-07-29T11:23:04.624-07:00Yeah it's a hard one to figure out. How much o...Yeah it's a hard one to figure out. How much of it is relative to your neighbors, how much of it is just based on salary vs. the average price of a 3-bedroom house, the economy food budget x 3, et cetera? I dunno, there's certainly no perfect measure. It's also odd that the same effect you talk about in Guatemala is also true in the US (ie poor people who would be middle class in Mx) and I can only assume most developed nations. That makes you suspect that middle classism is even more aspirational in Mexico than in most nations.pchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13973333514392213258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179048494901365426.post-48954665110362991112011-07-29T09:13:57.781-07:002011-07-29T09:13:57.781-07:00It's an interesting discussion: where does the...It's an interesting discussion: where does the struggling working class end and the middle class making a decent earning begin? Back in 2008 a sociologist in Guadalajara told me at a conference at the UdeG that, in Mexico, the middle class is more psychological than economical. Funny thing is: when I was in Guatemala last year, some of my friends there who had income levels that in Mexico would easily be considered (lower) middle class insisted on being poor people :-PJan-Albert Hootsenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08133589947023201496noreply@blogger.com