In your country, are nurses generally seen as working-class or middle-class?

[Brás Garcia de Mascarenhas]

The average salary of a nurse in Portugal is middle class but in the last decade the profession has been transitioning to lower middle class because of deteriorating working conditions. There has been a very large exodus of Portuguese nurses to other countries such as the UK, which means that the nurses who remain are overburned with their shifts (more problematic in the public hospitals).

[Tooting Carmen]

The average salary of a nurse in Portugal is middle class but in the last decade the profession has been transitioning to lower middle class because of deteriorating working conditions. There has been a very large exodus of Portuguese nurses to other countries such as the UK, which means that the nurses who remain are overburned with their shifts (more problematic in the public hospitals).

I am sure there are some Portuguese nurses here, but most of our foreign nurses come from India, the Phillippines and to a lesser extent Nigeria. (Btw, nurses' salaries are mostly crap here too, relative to their working hours and expertise).

[Budimir]

Regular nurses, whether those in GP surgeries or hospitals, are definitely seen as lower-middle-class here. (Only over the last 15 years or so have all nurses had to have university degrees). However, specialist nurses, e.g. cancer or cardiac nurses, would probably be more middle-middle class (similar to GPs and junior doctors).

Lets face it..hahaha...nursing is a social disaster...hahah

Upper middle class woman: What do you do?
Prole woman: I'm a nurse! (said with pride)
Upper middle class woman: I see [Averts eyes]

[Brás Garcia de Mascarenhas]

I am sure there are some Portuguese nurses here, but most of our foreign nurses come from India, the Phillippines and to a lesser extent Nigeria. (Btw, nurses' salaries are mostly crap here too, relative to their working hours and expertise).

In 2017 there were around 5,000 Portuguese nurses practicing in the NHS but this number has been decreasing since then (by 2022 around 2,000 had already returned). I know a couple of nurse friends who were there for about six years and have now returned. Their salary for the Portuguese reality was good, more than 3000€ monthly more or less but maybe in the UK it is something inadequate for the profession. In Portugal a nurse earns on average half of that (about 1500€).

[Incal]

So most Peruvian nurses look Indo-Mestizo if not full Amerindian, whereas most Peruvian doctors look Mestizo with a substantial minority of White/quasi-White ones?

Many doctors here look white proper. You can even tell by their names.

[Tooting Carmen]

Many doctors here look white proper.

I doubt the majority do though. (Even in Colombia, most doctors in my experience look Mestizo, even though there are a good number of White ones of course as well).

You can even tell by their names.

Do you mean they'd often have French/German/Italian/Polish surnames?

[Incal]

Do you mean they'd often have French/German/Italian/Polish surnames?

Or English/Croatian. Also arab/chinese/japanese.

[Annie999]

Lower-middle class in Uruguay, which falls into the working class.

[Tooting Carmen]

Lower-middle class in Uruguay, which falls into the working class.

Lower-middle-class is sort of transitional between working and middle-class, but still more the latter IMHO.

[Not a Cop]

Somewhere on a border, but it has a relatievly good social view, compared to other working-class jobs.