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[quote=Anonymous][quote]I'm going to go on a limb and add a mildly controversial thing. In addition to all the "things" in this thread, in my humble opinion, you cannot really comfortably belong to the UMC unless your family, ideally in two generations before you (so your parents and grandparents) were also UMC. It's great having UMC-level money and UMC-level jobs. But growing up with these things also gives you habits and assumptions and mannerisms that are frankly very hard to teach. They are hard to articulate even for people who grew up with them, that's how unspoken/DNA-level they are.[/quote]

I don't agree with this.  I grew up in a family where we got some new clothes and others were handed down, we were limited somewhat in our activities, I went on a plane only once or twice before college (only to visit grandparents and not with my whole family), vacations were one week always driving distance, no out of state college, etc.  I had a great childhood, but not UMC.  I think my kids are UMC/UC.  They have a lot of the things mentioned on this thread - private schools, country club, vacation home, ability to attend the best college they can get into, international travel, theater, we talk about saving for retirement, etc.  My spouse and I didn't have all this growing up but that doesn't mean that my kids can't be raised that way. [/quote]

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