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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.

It isn't really about whether you have money or not. Many Pakistani-Americans I know, who come from wealthy families back home, are eager to work. They don't need the money. For them, it is a matter of pride. They go to excellent schools and are ambitious. They're the women with the highest GPAs, do Model UN, are leads in the school play, go to Ivy Leagues, write OP Eds for and think pieces in publications of their choice etc. They also tend to marry well, because their parents arrange their matches, but the women still go on to dental school or medical school and become extremely successful. To them, it is low class to not have any ambition or want to better yourself intellectually or professionally. We work, not necessarily for the money but also because as a thinking living human being,it is necessarily to flex our intellectual muscles. [/quote]

And to me it's low class to not do those things first, then farm out your own children to others less educated than you and your husband during early childhood.  Class has many definitions depending on how you were raised. See? The world is amazing and so diverse! Celebrate that, OP![/quote]

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I see things completely differently than OP.  Her worldview is not mine and her priorities are not mine.  Isn't it great that we can all do what's best for our own families.

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