Quiz: how much of a 1% elite bubble do you live in?

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3. Am I the new winner? I lived half my life outside of the country.

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I got a 46. I live in a strange world. DH and I have PhDs but both have parents who don't have high school degrees.

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Anonymous wrote:18 and I'm AA. Sort of surprising, sort of not. All four of my grandparents have advanced degrees, which is my typical or AA families.

I am also black (not American) and scored a 20. I guess my early years living in the "hood" on NY was what upped my score. Oddly, I dont feel like a live in a bubble - I think that the rest of American just needs to catch up.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:18 and I'm AA. Sort of surprising, sort of not. All four of my grandparents have advanced degrees, which is my typical or AA families.

I am also black (not American) and scored a 20. I guess my early years living in the "hood" on NY was what upped my score. Oddly, I dont feel like a live in a bubble - I think that the rest of American just needs to catch up.

I feel this way too!!

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Anonymous wrote:I think you could score fairly low on this quiz if you were say the first generation American of Italian Catholic immigrants (if they went to college). Any very family-centric culture where one wouldn't eat a lot of fast food, socialize with people unlike themselves (in pol and rel) would score fairly low.

I think it is possible for women to score lower on this quiz than men, especially if they had very over-protective parents.

I do think the PP who said that the movie questions were skewed towards white people was right. To the person who argued about Nielsen ratings, please use some common sense. The guy that wrote The Bell Curve was racist.

Yes, and his book were the quiz was published is a critique of white culture/people. The quiz does not consider race/ethnicity intentionally.

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Anonymous wrote:39: first generation upper-middle-class with middle class parents.

+1

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36. And my family was straight-up blue collar, so I find my results kind of funny. Spent my early life trying to get out, and I guess I did.

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I got 59 and the description is right on target!

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22. A first generation immigrant with college professor parents. The test is definitely geared towards people who grew up in the US, so immigrants will get lower scores. Mine would be much lower if it weren't for the fact that I went to college in the Midwest and grad school in the South, and made an effort to make friends off campus in both places.

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Changing one or two answers may not make that big of a difference. I got a 31 and went back and after reading the "Why is this question here?" about uniforms, realized that my part-time second job requires me to wear a uniform. I hadn't really thought of it until I read the description. And my new score? 31.

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I got a 41, and I definitely grew up in an upper middle class family (both parents have grad degrees, mom's a physician), and am now a biglaw lawyer. I was surprised mine wasn't lower!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:39: first generation upper-middle-class with middle class parents.

+1

+2. I got a 41.

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I got a 25, but pulled a lot of my score from DH's family and my experiences visiting them.

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Anonymous wrote:3. Am I the new winner? I lived half my life outside of the country.

To PP and the immigrants, the test seems very skewed to the US.

I expected a question about firearm use, but there wasn't one.