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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Generally[/b] white collar workers go to college and blue collar workers don't. [b]There are some exceptions but it's often true[/b]. Also, white collar and blue collar people live in different neighborhoods, kids go to different schools and as a result they don't socialize together that much. It's not that surprising I wouldn't have friends without college degrees. I have a few family members who married "down" or just couldn't hack college.[/quote]

Huh. My husband and I are both bookish, white-collar people with advanced degrees from good schools, but we also each have a sibling who didn't finish college and now works in a blue-collar job. For some people these worlds mix.[/quote]

Similarly - I'm an ivy league grad with PH.D. and I have a brother who is a bartender.  My spouse with a JD from an elite university has a brother who never finished college.  Also my mother only did 2 years of college before dropping out to work and get married.  And I have quite a few cousins who didn't go to college or else never finished their degrees.

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LOL at the cretins who went to "good schools" but failed to comprehend the bolded sections.

Whenever someone makes a general statement, you can always rely on the aspies to trot out their personal exceptions as if it means anything.[/quote]

When a general statement is unsupported by any evidence and appears to be a universalization of the poster's own experience, it's not surprising that other posters respond with their own different experiences.  What's shocking (on a number of levels) is that they get called "cretins" and "aspies" in response. [/quote]

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