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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There's a whole language that super wealthy established people have, a whole culture, that the rest of us will never know.  And honestly, aside from marrying into it, I don't know how you will learn it.

My parents were wealthy and were able to send us to exclusive schools -- but we landed in the 'wrong dorm' in those schools.  Most of the other people on my floor were international students who were wealthy but not part of the US establishment, kids on scholarship, other first generation college attenders, etc.    I arrived at college with the wrong clothes, didn't know which were the right parties to go to, etc.  Majored in the wrong thing compared to the wealthy kids.

My parents tried -- we had horseback riding lessons, skiing lessons, etc.  They had been even more clueless themselves and wanted us to have the skills and knowledge they didn't have.  But they gave us names which indicated that we belonged to the middle class not the upper class -- think "Suzie" vs. Chambers or Talmadge.  We didn't live in the right suburb, didn't even know what the right suburbs were.

I honestly think that the only thing to do is to opt out of any attempt to be accepted by those people.   They're kind of snotty and mean anyway. [/quote]

+1 Very interesting. Please share more of your story! Are Chambers and Talmadge really the uppercrust names we should strive for? Curious, what sort of names did you give your children?[/quote]

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