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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Every so often these threads come up which are nothing more than extended masturbatory sessions for "natives" or "old money" to pat each other on the back and tell themselves how great they are.

And every time it comes up they don't realize just how insecure it makes them look. [/quote]

When in reality, most of them have never left the financial shelter of mom & dad. [/quote]

Actually this city is less wealthy natives and more middle class and working poor natives. I really have to chuckle at the notion that DC proper "natives" are all the socialite types. This is so steeped in so many assumptions:

- you're white
- you're Christian
- you're most likely Protestant
- or you're Irish Catholic (not "ethnic" Catholic or "ethnic" at all really)
 
This is not a town that is particularly welcoming to non-WASPs in the upper echelons of society. I grew up as one of the middle class kids at one of the Catholic independent schools and I can tell you that there was a VAST difference between those of us who weren't from the Blessed Sacrament/country club set and those who were.

So maybe some natives are still living under mommy and daddy's financial wing's but I tire of reading about how everyone from this city does. For every kid who grew up in Spring Valley or Palisades or lived in a named family estate in upper northwest, there are plenty of us whose parents worked their asses off for the first generation dream but gave their children the education so we could make ourselves successful -- not so we could sponge off mom and dad well into adulthood.[/quote]

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