working class hero
WUR-king KLAS HEER-oh
ˈwɜːrkɪŋ klɑːs ˈhɪroʊListen
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a person who is celebrated and admired for having achieved extraordinary things while maintaining the values, identity, and solidarity associated with manual or low-wage labour, refusing to abandon their origins or community despite success; the phrase, made famous by John Lennon's 1970 song of the same name which used it with bitter irony to describe the socialisation of working-class people into accepting their own subordination, has evolved to be used both critically to expose how the working class is kept in its place by ideology and approvingly to describe individuals who achieve greatness without betraying their roots
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