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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some people on this thread just want to be argumentative and/or like to hear themselves talk[/quote]

Typical of DCUM. But it is weird to see people talk about being frugal as a status symbol  :roll: [/quote]

Call it what you want, but people specifically choose certain items so as not to flaunt wealth, or to separate themselves from the masses (remember grunge?) or whatever. I refused to wear pink in college, or gold jewelry. Everything you do, wear, own, etc., sends a message about who you are and what you value. Even if that message is that you *don't* value something. [/quote]

You still don't understand what status symbols mean and are trying to redefine it as something else.

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No, you're narrowly interpreting "status" to mean "high wealth." That's not the case. Try reading beyond your one definition... even Wikipedia has a more nuanced definition than you do:

A status symbol is a [b]visible, external symbol of one's social position[/b], an indicator of economic or social status.[1] Many luxury goods are often considered status symbols. [b]Status symbol is also a sociological term – as part of social and sociological symbolic interactionism – relating to how individuals and groups interact and interpret various cultural symbols.[/b][2][/quote]

99/100 people accept status symbols as having to do with flaunting wealth. That is the commonly held definition in popular language. Which is why all official definitions and dictionaries and even our wiki link specifically refer to economic and social status and talk about luxury goods. I could link dozens and dozens of links to dictionaries and other sources making this clear.

Being virtuous is not a status symbol. What *you* are doing is applying a very narrow prism of status symbol's meaning to talk about something else and sociological behaviors that would not be accepted or recognized as status symbols by the 99/100, which in turn makes it irrelevant.

Here's a clue: only paranoid upper middle class people see things like frugality and lack of ostentatious behavior as status symbols, but the upper middle classes have no status, which is why it's contradictory to speak as such. Holders of real wealth couldn't care less about you being frugal.

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Okay, cool. [/quote]

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