Eventually though, brownstones in much of Brooklyn became associated with the working class, and then the poor, who moved in when the buildings were divided into rooming houses.
The first coffee shop opened in 1888 in Tokyo's Ueno district, and drinking the brew became associated with the leisure class who had time and money.
At first, the term became associated with the upper classes that supported the Mubarak regime instead of the January 25th Revolution; eventually it would describe Mubarak supporters regardless of social or economic status.
Yet the name, acquired through their involvement in gold and diamond mining, has since then become a symbol of personal greed in the eye of most South Africans and a derogatory term after it became associated with the new ruling class.
But the more they sell, the harder it is to convince customers that they are buying something "exclusive": ie, something that hardly anyone else has.Burberry, a British firm that makes pricey raincoats, got a fright a few years ago when its distinctive brown checks became associated with "chavs"—a white working-class group at whom snobs poke cruel fun.
As Megan J. Elias writes in "Stir It Up: Home Economics in American Culture," home ec "became associated with dead-end high school classes for girls". Today, while home economics courses occasionally pop up in high schools, the language has changed.
It even became associated with a derogatory term in Britain: the "chav," or working-class delinquent, who wreaked havoc while wearing a knockoff Burberry cap.
Originally identified with working-class audiences, nickelodeons appealed increasingly to the middle class as the decade wore on, and they became associated with the rising popularity of the story film.
