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[quote=Anonymous]Ok. There's nothing wrong with striving. Improving your let is a great American pastime and I have every respect for anyone who is ambitious and works hard to get ahead. I absolutely see how some people can be snobs about that.

However, there is also something to be said about trying too hard to appear like you "fit in" by birth into a certain demographic by obscuring your heritage or origins, in short you're not being entirely honest about who you are.

My father came from a small town, his family were quiet, plain people. He was the first to go to college and he has accomplished a great deal through personal ambition and it's brought him into a world where he's surrounded by many peers who went to fancy prep schools and whose families would have once been called "society people." My father has never pretended to be anything other than who he is or who his parents were. He also never tried to look or act a certain way to gain acceptance. Despite all these, for whatever reasons, he's gained entry into places and access to people who would have immediately rejected him if he'd tried to pretend to be something he wasn't.

There is a difference between striving and pretending to be something you're not. [/quote]

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