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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I found it interesting that all of the weakest, “worst” characters were all still very tethered to their parents in adulthood, as if they’re just perpetual little children. We saw Rachel call her mom, Olivia went and cried to her mom, Shane’s mom shows up on his honeymoon, Tanya’s literally carrying her dead mom around, Mark’s problems spiraled when he found out about his dad’s past... By contrast, we know nothing at all about the families of Armond, Belinda, or Paula. They’re out there making their own ways without the benefit of (or burden from) parental ties. And then there’s Quinn, who seems to have found redemption in choosing Mother Earth over his own mother.[/quote]

Paula is way worse than Rachel. [/quote]

Paula was at least genuinely trying to help someone else, misguided as it was. Rachel’s only trying to help herself.[/quote]

Was she, though, or was she just trying to screw over the Mossbachers? [/quote]

This. She wasn’t helping Kai, she was exacting revenge on the Mossbachers for being successful white people. Which is ironic considering how comfortable she is this environment, which shows she comes from a place of extraordinary privilege. [/quote]

[b]I don't know why people think Paula is less wealthy than the Mossbachers.[/b] She presumably goes to the same college as Olivia which is probably Ivy league caliber given her high performing mom. Due to being a POC, Paula is slightly more aware of social issues than her white friends. [/quote]

They make a point in the beginning where Paula says how appreciative she is that the Mossbacher's brought her on the trip. I thought that maybe she was at the college on scholarship, and is Olivia's token POC friend. [/quote]

She might be Olivia’s token POC friend but nowhere does it say she is a scholarship student. She can politely say thank you and be appreciative without being automatically poor. [/quote]

It’s creepy that people assume she’s poor and on a scholarship because she’s a POC. No where in the script or in the actors portrayal is it implied that Paula is poorer than Olivia. She has the same mannerisms and attitude of her UC peers. The tension between her and the Mossbachers is that they’re WHITE and she’s BIPOC, it’s that intricate dynamic between UC white people vis a vis UC POC. All of her wealth and belonging in the same class as them doesn’t erase the micro aggressions they subject her to. [/quote]

this is spot on, as a privileged  BIPOC, paula's discomfort with her hosts is something most UC POC experience, especially when they are the lone wealthy POC and all the other people who look like them are staff. It gives yo a sort of vertiginous feeling of being off balance at first and then the white cultural habits begin to annoy you, and after a bit you feel like you are being used/don't belong.  TBH british people aren't as annoying in this regard as white americans but i think that is b/c race is the basis of the class system here and the class system there is based on land/title (occupation) [/quote]

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