Signs someone grew up rich

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Anonymous wrote:Clear, articulate speech with an expansive vocabulary.

Disagree. I think vocabulary and speech are a result of educated parents. Just look at the Trump kids. They have money but a father with limited vocabulary.

The Trump kids are extremely articulate and polished. You are blinded by hatred for Trump, but his kids are polished and successful.

Ivanka. Not his coked-up appearing son. The women they choose are far from classy. But then again, look at their father.

Hunter Biden.

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Rode horses, went to certain summer camps, knows other rich people around the country from summer vacations.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Had manicures/pedicures as a teen.

Have been to more spas than campgrounds (growing up).

Definitely not

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Anonymous wrote:Good table manners, polite to almost everyone, well-travelled around world but don’t tend to brag, private schools, nice reliable car, well groomed but not a show off, ——however—-they can and will throw a little temper tantrum if they are told no (but only because they aren’t used to being told no).

Oh heck no. Have you never met the strung out rich kids whose large allowances are spent on booze and pot? Rude, bored and born on third and think they hit a triple.

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They don’t start threads on DCUM asking if things are trashy

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Clear, articulate speech with an expansive vocabulary.

Disagree. I think vocabulary and speech are a result of educated parents. Just look at the Trump kids. They have money but a father with limited vocabulary.

And George W. Bush. He grew up with money and connections and attended great schools.

He is extremely articulate when he needs to be. The rest is for political show. He's also fluent in Spanish.

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Anonymous wrote:White privilege.

And colored judgement.

[Anonymous]

I like the signs that you didn't grow up rich. How they spill out no matter how hard you try to hide them.

My old money WASP mother, who was off her rocker, was very proud of having married a doctor. His class, or lack of it, became apparent immediately to anyone who had to watch him eat. He shoved food in his mouth. Conversation was a giveaway as well; this man literally told fart jokes to my extremely proper UC grandparents at the dinner table, and then got nervous when it became clear that wasn't appropriate and tried to impress them by telling them about his (imaginary, of course) bronze medal from the Olympics. He would also try to call attention to himself -- I remember him going on and on and on about how hard it is to get into medical school at the Thanksgiving dinner table and my investment banker uncle glaring down the table, trying to will him to stop freaking talking. He and my mother were not offered cc membership, even though my mother was a big golfer and my entire family were members -- I have no doubt he made a fool of himself in the interview.

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Anonymous wrote:They waste food because they do not understand the true value of it. They have no idea what it costs, what it is like to be on a budget, what it is like to do without. So they have no respect.

This is so far from the truth it is laughable.

[Anonymous]

Signs: if they get in trouble (drugs, school problems, some crimes), they may be able to get out of it more easily than poorer people. Extreme case: the Kennedys, Ted and Joseph II. May even have crisis PR or PR on retainer--especially in entertainment.

Confidence (ease in the world or arrogance) or cripplingly low self-esteem.
Can be extremely spoiled and without self-control.

Naivete about the world and that their good intentions can change it (assuming this is something they care about) and may feel guilty for their privilege. Feel responsible for the world but overestimate their importance. May go into helping professions, the arts or foundation/non-profit work or run their families' foundations with or without guilt.

Some use people/expect to be used.

Competitive.

Use of friendships and connections for opportunities, everything from employment to services.

Polite, well-mannered and clean whether they wear new clothes or old.

Expensive hobbies and pastimes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Clear, articulate speech with an expansive vocabulary.

Disagree. I think vocabulary and speech are a result of educated parents. Just look at the Trump kids. They have money but a father with limited vocabulary.

The Trump kids are extremely articulate and polished. You are blinded by hatred for Trump, but his kids are polished and successful.

Ivanka. Not his coked-up appearing son. The women they choose are far from classy. But then again, look at their father.

Hunter Biden.

That has nothing to do with the conversation (which was said in response to a Trump post).

Do you have some sort of tic, whereby you read a Trump criticism and reflexively post “Hunter Biden?”

If so, I know a political party that would elect you to Congress for that trait alone.

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Had a horse butler.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I like the signs that you didn't grow up rich. How they spill out no matter how hard you try to hide them.

My old money WASP mother, who was off her rocker, was very proud of having married a doctor. His class, or lack of it, became apparent immediately to anyone who had to watch him eat. He shoved food in his mouth. Conversation was a giveaway as well; this man literally told fart jokes to my extremely proper UC grandparents at the dinner table, and then got nervous when it became clear that wasn't appropriate and tried to impress them by telling them about his (imaginary, of course) bronze medal from the Olympics. He would also try to call attention to himself -- I remember him going on and on and on about how hard it is to get into medical school at the Thanksgiving dinner table and my investment banker uncle glaring down the table, trying to will him to stop freaking talking. He and my mother were not offered cc membership, even though my mother was a big golfer and my entire family were members -- I have no doubt he made a fool of himself in the interview.

Wow. I'm sorry you have such awful family members. All of this makes me glad I didn't grow up rich surrounded by people like that or the CC set. Yuck.

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They use summer as a verb.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Clear, articulate speech with an expansive vocabulary.

Disagree. I think vocabulary and speech are a result of educated parents. Just look at the Trump kids. They have money but a father with limited vocabulary.

The Trump kids are extremely articulate and polished. You are blinded by hatred for Trump, but his kids are polished and successful.

Ivanka. Not his coked-up appearing son. The women they choose are far from classy. But then again, look at their father.

Hunter Biden.

That has nothing to do with the conversation (which was said in response to a Trump post).

Do you have some sort of tic, whereby you read a Trump criticism and reflexively post “Hunter Biden?”

If so, I know a political party that would elect you to Congress for that trait alone.

New poster, while I'm not the biggest fan of Trump his children have been pretty well behaved and the accusation of a "coked-up appearing son" falls pretty flat when it's Hunter Biden with the known drug habit AND we also had that brief mysterious discovery of a bag of coke at the WH before it was abruptly memory-holed.

IF someone makes a thread political by bringing up Trump, others are perfectly justified to disagree and bring up Biden.