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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am shocked. I come from a European country and I am profoundly shocked. From this posts, it appears that in the US you are basically what you have. I have friends who are real estate agents, personal assistants. I come from a wealthy aristocratic family. My friends come from a diverse and broad variety of background (that is ehat happens when the best tertisry education is public). I will never, or had never, looked down any of my friends /or better, anyone for the money they have. On the contrary. I, for example, admire my housekeeper. She had 11 children in a rural village of Ecuador, in an abusive marriage, and was able to migrate to my country and -over the years- naturalize and bring all her kids there. One has a substantial disability. She was able to find him a job. Two of her children are going to graduate from one of the best engineering schools in the country -while they clean houses and work as part-time nannies to support their living. I truly admire this hardworking woman. 
I have family members who believe working -really- is kind of shameful for their status (a minority of them, basically one or two). I don't admire them at all, nor does most of our society. How does having money make you a better person or more worthy -yes I mean worthy- to society? There are true mean and twisted people with and without money. I think being a loser is having so much focus on what people have rather on how they are, not being a hard-working real estate agent.[/quote]

I wonder how this woman would feel if her kid married the housekeeper's kid. Self-righteous European, do you extend the same admiration for Muslim immigrant's kid who wants to make it out of the slum in your European country? Do you not discriminate against them when they apply to schools and jobs? Here in America, a poor kid can go to an elite school if he can get in and will be given a job based on their qualifications not their ethnicity. There is racism here but it is not as rampant as it is in Europe. A fancy German once told me that it doesn't matter if a Turkish kid had been born and raised in Germany, that kid would never be a real German. It is completely possible in America to move up in society, not so much in Europe. You want to talk about shock, im shocked at how openly racist Europeans are or maybe that's a good thing, at least you have the decency to show your true colors up front. [/quote]

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