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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I find the existence of the thousands of threads on this so interesting.  Partly because my parents come from a country where lower class people have a much harder time changing their “class”- they can’t afford to take care of their teeth, they speak differently, dress differently, etc.  It’s a much more marked difference than in America where the differences between a middle class person and an upper class person are more subtle.  Personally it’s not something I think about with regards to my own standing- as long as my children grow up to be educated and civic-minded with decent jobs and teeth I think they will be fine.  That’s mostly what I worry about.

What drives the interest in this?  Do you think people feel insecure about their place in society?  Like,[b] if they are perceived as lower class then they and their children will be locked out of opportunities[/b]?  Is this another symptom of the wealth gap in our country, that a bunch of middle class women obsess about this endlessly?[/quote]

This absolutely happened/happens in our area.  I grew up in the area and graduated high school in 2000.  Due to an accident, my family became a one income earning family overnight.  We went from MC to LMC pretty quickly.  A lot of the time we were living paycheck to paycheck.  We had to move from our home into a condo in a neighborhood that was mostly low income and section 8 housing.  Friends that my little brother had been allowed to play with before were banned from coming to our house.  I was part of a carpool for a sports team that dropped me after the move.  The reason given was that it was too far out of the way (literally 0.3 of a mile from our old neighborhood) but the real reason, as told to me by a friend from the team, was that the parents feared being shot or robbed while in that area.  Teachers who found out where you lived also treated you differently.  [/quote]

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