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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well maybe it’s not trashy. But it’s jarring and not cute. [/quote]

It is a cultural difference. [b]For me it is so sweet to see little girls wearing gold earring and signifies that the parents will look after her needs and not scrimp on providing expensive things like gold jewellery to her.  To me it was  jarring, not cute and very sad to see neglected girls with unpierced ears[/b].  See how this works? [/quote]

In this country, the upper class did not need to use a baby or daughter to signal their status.  One's name was enough.  Using your child to signal wealth or status would have been considered ostentatious.[/quote]

This country, the U.S.A., where the purported ethos is it's not who you are but what you make of yourself that matters? I don't think "one's name is enough" even now to signal status. Obviously, you aren't talking about the Native American names. The few Boston Brahmin families or Dutch New Yorkers do not have a stranglehold over American wealth. Even the Astors, Du Pont, Rockefeller. Vanderbilt were later settlers from the gilded age. [/quote]

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