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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It seems like OP's mission is to get people to admit that they're from Bumf*ck, KY, because she wants to feel superior. She thinks she is cool because she grew up in an OMG urban area. It's gatekeeping. [/quote][/quote]

Why doesn't someone just say they're from an OMG rural area if that's the truth?  [b]Why not be upfront?[/b]  So strange[/quote]
Because many of y'all are classist, judgmental, and think that those of us from rural areas are somehow "lesser". I grew up in a rural, southern, poor area and went I went to an Ivy League college. Ignorant, ugly, hurtful, mocking comments were made with a fairly large degree of frequency among my classmates about people with backgrounds similar to mine. Things like having a southern accent, working class habits, etc. were seen as undesirable and unprofessional attributes that should be covered up if you wanted to succeed somewhere like the finance industry in NYC. When you come from the "wrong" background you are encouraged to hide it so you can succeed and it's not a leap to realize that disclosing one's hometown is another element of this.

Don't play dumb. You have to be living under a rock to not know about the stereotypes that are given to rural and/or southern people. And kid who grew up in a distinct culture & had to learn to navigate class enviros at school/work knows what’s up.[/quote]

Okay. But now that you've moved out of that, and presumably have done a lot to move away from that, why not just say the name of your hometown so people can change their attitudes?  Why not be real?  Unless you think there's an element of your hometown in you that is indelible, never going to go away, then why hide it, if you have no real connection with the place?  Seems like you hiding that aspect of yourself is just allowing people to continue to have their same old attitudes and look down upon those places [/quote]

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