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[quote=Anonymous]OP; if you are still reading, I should share that I read none but your post. Here's a story for you. During University, we were discussing the social welfare system (which included pell grants and stafford loans). A black male in my class basically made the same argument that you did...people all assumed that he was from the system and was benefiting from PGs and SLs and it pissed him off b/c his parents saved to send him and his sibs to school. I was an average white girl with a very preppy look and followed up his story by quietly stating that I was going to school totally funded by PGs and SLs. The look on his face was priceless as we were two sides of the same assumption. Now I am fabulously well off (ok, just well off) and people assume I come from privilege. I go back and forth between letting them assume and telling them harrowing stories of poverty. [/quote]
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