Mr. John Doe's inspiring talk

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Paul has arranged a visit with the Daily Telegraph for the whole class last Friday and it turned out to be an inspiring trip. 

Mr. John Doe (I do know the man's name yet he himself insisted being anonymous) from the Daily Telegraph has made a three-hour presentation on the British media giant in their posh conference room. And everybody there could feel the proudness in that man's chest.

Of course he should be - as a senior member of the best-selling broadsheet newspaper in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, being honest, the man's presentation was interesting - focusing on the group's business succuss and their smart way of boosting benefits fighting against world's economic downfall.

What I said about the "inspiring" thing is his sharing of British social hierarchy - although this maybe some kind of common sense to others living inside this society, it was totally a new concept to me.

According to this theory, residence of a society would be seperated into different layers: A, B, C1, C2, D and E. Each layer represents a certain life style.

Group A may be less than 1% of the total population yet they control over 60% of wealth and they are extremely powerful and influencial to the society. Best education.

Group B is not so influencial as group A yet they are rich too. Statistics show this group controls over 15% of social wealth and are well-educated.

C1 group could be whitecollars, who work hard and are relatively well paid. They have aspiration. They long for better life and social recognition. Well-educated as well.

C2 group are normally blue-collar workers - better salary compared to those white-collars yet less-educated. They live in contentment - with less aspiration and more desires to show off.

Group D usually refers to those manual workers, less pay yet get paid from a job.

And group E - who rely on social support to carry on living. People who live on pension or jobless students are typical representatives of this group.

However, this hierarchy is not stable - i.e. students may jump directly from group E to group B or C through continuous enhancing of self-accomplishment, and a wealthy general may lose everything after a political persecution. Things change.

And to me, this indeed, is the most beneficial knowledge of that day - much more meaningful than the rest of the talk on how sexual ads on their newpapers were reformed to fit in their conservative tone.