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[quote=Anonymous]Plumber, maybe. Walmart worker, no.

I was pondering this same thing yesterday actually. I happened to be sitting next to a white (appreared to be) middle class family. They were talking over the two hours about lots of different things. I was trying to figure out where they were from. They talked about cruises they've been on, friends who spend too much on drugs, an overweight relative who was so big that he had to be taken out a window when he died. They used words like ain't and just sounded very low class. My stereotypical impression of white people like this is that they are lower to middle class blue collar workers who I have nothing in common with. I'm sure they were very nice, and Yrumo never came up, but we just live in different worlds. I can't understand theirs and they can't understand mine. Not do we want to, I'd bet. 
I would not want my kid to grow up to be a guy who smokes and wears t shirts that have sayings about beer and boobs and whose main form of travel is a cruise. This is why I don't cruise. I'm afraid it will be full of people like them. 
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