Do you feel sorry for less affluent family when you're around them today? Especially their kids

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I feel sorry for them that they have to put up with such snobby and arrogant relatives.

[Anonymous]

So, apparently I'm the only one who has figured out that OP has an inferiority complex and is actually the sad, bitter and jealous middle class family member who perceives that this is going on. Poor you, OP. Literally.

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Anonymous wrote:Once upon a time someone considered Robert Chambers and Michael Skakel high-caliber peers.

And the murderous Landon boy. Every time I see a Landon sticker I just shake my head now. And I only have daughter's.

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Anonymous wrote:Not that they're not happy and nice, but if I'm being frank, honestly, their kids are so dull. We can tell our children run academic & soft skill circles around their solidly middle class cousins. I really don't think it's IQ, it's just environment and better schools and higher-caliber peers. Makes me so sad. I wonder if their parents are as cognizant as we are while we watch them interact?

They are probably much happier not having you for a parent.

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Anonymous wrote:Oh.
My.
God.

+1

[Anonymous]

I know the feeling OP. I'm currently watching most of my extended family watch hour 6 of NFL football for the day. From age 4 all the way up to grown men in their 40s. It's the most pathetic thing I've ever seen. They are addicted to sports. They have no clue what's going on in the world, none of them have read a single book all year.

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Anonymous wrote:I feel sorry for them that they have to put up with such snobby and arrogant relatives.

There's nothing elitist or snobby about calling out destructive white trash behavior. There's nothing sweet about adults conditioning their kids to be dull losers.

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Anonymous wrote:I know the feeling OP. I'm currently watching most of my extended family watch hour 6 of NFL football for the day. From age 4 all the way up to grown men in their 40s. It's the most pathetic thing I've ever seen. They are addicted to sports. They have no clue what's going on in the world, none of them have read a single book all year.

Everyone in my family has at least a master’s and we love football. Get over yourself.

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Anonymous wrote:I know the feeling OP. I'm currently watching most of my extended family watch hour 6 of NFL football for the day. From age 4 all the way up to grown men in their 40s. It's the most pathetic thing I've ever seen. They are addicted to sports. They have no clue what's going on in the world, none of them have read a single book all year.

Everyone in my family has at least a master’s and we love football. Get over yourself.

I know, right! Tons of Stanford PhDs and Yale law grads waste their weekends away watching 4 5 6 maybe even 7 entire football games! It's not just escapism for dull trash who read at a 7th grade level!

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Anonymous wrote:Not that they're not happy and nice, but if I'm being frank, honestly, their kids are so dull. We can tell our children run academic & soft skill circles around their solidly middle class cousins. I really don't think it's IQ, it's just environment and better schools and higher-caliber peers. Makes me so sad. I wonder if their parents are as cognizant as we are while we watch them interact?

One holiday car ride home our youngest asked if his two cousins [who are older than him] were slow. They're not.

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Anonymous wrote:I know the feeling OP. I'm currently watching most of my extended family watch hour 6 of NFL football for the day. From age 4 all the way up to grown men in their 40s. It's the most pathetic thing I've ever seen. They are addicted to sports. They have no clue what's going on in the world, none of them have read a single book all year.

Everyone in my family has at least a master’s and we love football. Get over yourself.

Same.

I usually read a book while watching the games all day. I lay close attention to my own team but I read when the other games are in (which I keep on because I have to keep tabs on my three fantasy teams).

—woman with doctorate

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Hell no. I honestly question whether your kids are bright from your post.

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Anonymous wrote:OP hit on a important observation of inequality here. The kids she's talking about aren't dirt poor but they are not given the opportunities that her own kids are given. That's the real problem in this country. Shouldn't all kids be able to reach their full potential? It's a systemic issue and not one that a lot of people give a lot of thought to.

THIS! ^^^

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know the feeling OP. I'm currently watching most of my extended family watch hour 6 of NFL football for the day. From age 4 all the way up to grown men in their 40s. It's the most pathetic thing I've ever seen. They are addicted to sports. They have no clue what's going on in the world, none of them have read a single book all year.

Everyone in my family has at least a master’s and we love football. Get over yourself.

I know, right! Tons of Stanford PhDs and Yale law grads waste their weekends away watching 4 5 6 maybe even 7 entire football games! It's not just escapism for dull trash who read at a 7th grade level!

I never watched or liked sports, but have come to them through my athletic kids (DH and I don't know where the hell they came from!) and appreciate what common ground they offer all kinds of people.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know the feeling OP. I'm currently watching most of my extended family watch hour 6 of NFL football for the day. From age 4 all the way up to grown men in their 40s. It's the most pathetic thing I've ever seen. They are addicted to sports. They have no clue what's going on in the world, none of them have read a single book all year.

Everyone in my family has at least a master’s and we love football. Get over yourself.

I know, right! Tons of Stanford PhDs and Yale law grads waste their weekends away watching 4 5 6 maybe even 7 entire football games! It's not just escapism for dull trash who read at a 7th grade level!

Dad is a biglaw partner who was on law review at a T-14 and that's pretty much how he spends his Sundays. My husband (an attorney from a tier 1 school) and I (T-14 magna cum laude graduate) frequently join him.