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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The issue here is definitional.  "Culturally rich" sounds snobby, pretentious, and self-important.  If what is meant by that very unfortunate turn of phrase is is actually "well-educated", the responses would be quite different.  It's not difficult to understand concepts like education and wealth, whereas "cultured" is often in the eye of the observer when used as a synonym for "superior to others" rather to refer simply to ways of life in a particular society.

If the question is whether some people are well-educated but not affluent, the answer is obviously yes.  And certainly there are plenty of relatively uneducated but affluent people, too.  While education is correlated generally with wealth, the correlation is imperfect and not universally true.  [/quote]

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eh. I get the distaste people had about the 'snobbery' in the post and that the word 'culturally rich' is loaded, but I don't think the point isn't just education.  There are people who view education as a means to an end--get a good job, meet the "right" people, do what is expected of me in my class, status of the degree etc.  There are others who care about culture and learning for its own sake and invest their time/energy in pursuing those interests that rather than optimizing financial gains. I think the OP was talking about valuing the latter.[/quote]

This.  But it is highly dependent on the individual not just their circumstances.  We have two kids.  On paper, they look similar in terms of their grades etc.  But one of them truly loves learning for learning's sake.  Wants to delve into the "why" on everything.  Is a natural intellectual.  We have drummed it into her head that she needs to be able to support herself but she will likely always be "asset poor" (relative to DCUM - but in the real world she'll be fine) and will be in some type of intellectual career that will fulfil her (scientific researcher is current plan).  My other kid just has a knack for finding opportunities to move up in the world.  Does what he needs to but is not driven by a love of learning for learning's sake.  Who knows where he'll end up, but if someone in our family is going to end up "asset rich", it is going to be him.  [/quote]

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