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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You are psycho. All I was doing was sharing my story of where we fit into this, as others were doing.... Fact is we are already G, my friend. We're already hanging out with you. We're fitting in. No one thinks his life was sad....... huh? He wasn't Underclass.....

What you're saying is no one can truly move between L and G. That's false. Read the article lady, there is a lot of movement between L and G. Get used to it.

Not backing down here because you're the type of person who should be ashamed of themselves. Imagine saying what you're saying publicly. Snot.[/quote]

There's movement between it, sure. [b] But the people who were born into G look down on it[/b].  Obviously that bothers you- too bad.  The truth is the truth. [/quote]

I'm sure some people do, though certainly not all. [b]Or perhaps if this schema is accurate it is (a) Gs with no connection to extended portions of their family containing Ls, (b) Gs who have a desire to move to the E scale of values or (c) Gs lacking in empathy and human connection.
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Or perhaps this schema is an abstracted simplification and doesn't adequately capture the full range of experience.  Regardless, the snobbery reflected in the PP's post reflects poorly on them rather than on the poster they were addressing.[/quote]

Many G's have no family members in the L section.  This is not an issue for them [/quote]

PP. No extended family or close friends? This seems so strange to me - even going to hyper-elite schools you interact with folks who come from these backgrounds. If you can't learn to see and respect them, that is your failing, not theirs.

Although perhaps it's just my odd perspective.  Classic American mutt that's the protect of family across the spectrum, so don't exactly fit in anywhere, though the intellectual and feminist values described as Gentry here certainly fit best. [/quote]

Of course you interact with some- and you might even, in some cases, become friends with them.  And your view of that friendship will always be colored by your awareness of their background.

Family members?  No.  And the friends I have who do have family members like that- think of them as an oddity and look down on them.[/quote]

PP again. I find what you wrote incredibly depressing.  Do you truly think most people think like this? Or perhaps I am wrong and most people do, in which case I choose to keep the rose colored glasses on because that view of the world is stark and ugly.  We can be better than that.[/quote]

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