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[quote=Anonymous]Honestly, it sounds like you have ascended to the upper middle class.

Now if you’re asking how you will get people to perceive you as being of a certain class of treating you a certain way, that’s a different thing. Depending on where you live, your community will never accept you as “one of them” for a million reasons, some as petty as not having grown up there, and some as nasty as being the wrong race or being unattractive.

It’s all arbitrary and the people you perceive as having high social standing only do because they’ve convinced you and others to see it that way and work hard to exclude others from that group.

My advice as someone who is probably perceived as being upper class/having high social status but who was raised by poor white people who were status-obsessed, and who married an immigrant of color whose family was obsessed with advancement: Don’t focus on income, Ivy League, etc. It’s a game that’s stacked against those in the outside.

Focus on what you *truly* care about and maximizing your children’s opportunities. And then when you feel like you’ve done that, turn to focusing on others and maximizing their opportunities. [/quote]

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