The Classics of Social Climbing
We are all social climbers, though not all of us adopt it as a career. The most blatant social climbers engage in ascent by association, i.e. being seen (preferably photographed) with prominent personalities in order to be mistaken for members of their tribe. There’s no point in distinguishing between old money and new money—this is the Philippines, everything is new. If we must make distinctions, they should be between the people who inherited their money and the people who made their own money. Even then, the inheritors can be divided into three categories:
– the heirs who live off the work of their ancestors,
– the heirs who parlayed their inheritance into even greater riches,
– and the dolts who just sat around waiting for their parents to drop dead, and never bothered to learn a negotiable skill or get a job.
Read our column at InterAksyon.
Forgot to mention that Nancy Mitford codified that “U” and “non-U” stuff.
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