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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"My mom gets really upset that we do not eat in the dining room every night (mostly eat at breakfast bar in kitchen as it seats 4) and that we don't use cloth napkins or china plates every night."

My mother taught me that only the help or poor people eat in the kitchen. [/quote]

All of this insight [i]totally [/i]explains DCUM.[/quote]

First poster in chain here.  Did you not realize how much more prevalent class distinctions were in past generations?  My mother is always saying what is (was) low class and I just listen and then do what I want. She is in her 70s and it was a different world back then.  My grandmothers were even more so.

in past generations, It was not as easy to move between classes, it didn't always have to do with money, and you couldn't research things on the Internet to find out how other people did things.  There also wasn't as easily accessible media- tv and movies have led to us all acting more similarly.  Class distinction are much less prevalent these days because most everyone has access to everything and its much harder to be oblivious of others' SES social norms.  Also, few folks have full time, live in, household help anymore (which served to highlight class distinctions like who eats where) because now most everyone has machines, like dishwashers and washing machines, and services, like dry cleaning and pea pod, to handle all those old fashioned tasks for you.

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