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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My father was a first generation college attender and so was my mom. He became a doctor and made a lot of money but we definitely weren’t “classy”. My grandparents all had dentures and read tabloid newspapers. My father was permanently a fish out of water, too intimidated to join a country club or go to a fancy restaurant, stay an expensive hotel. He pushed his kids into elite schools, music competitions where it felt like we were always kind of clueless, playing catch up. We didn’t have the cultural capitol - didn’t recognize those key words people throw out. For example, knowing that Rye NY or Grosse Pointe are where the rich people live, that the Ethical Cultural Society is like “rich people church .”’I do okay financially and have a fancy job but am also a perpetual outsider. I have tried to give my kids the cultural capitol but don’t know if I succeeded. [/quote]
I think this is a more interesting story and very common: people who ascend in class but feel like outsiders. It fuels a lot of people's anger and disappointments because once you get into elite circles, there are always people who let you know your lack of knowledge, subtlety or overtly. Or: you feel guilty about what you have now or that your family and former friends behind but you no longer fit in with them either. And you see that these people don't value the working class or they condescend in a corny way. I think of this when I read Steve Bannon's story of his working class father and his experience at Harvard. He seems very bitter about class and I think he represents a lot of people's feelings. It's hard to move up and for a lot of people, it's not satisfying. [/quote]

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