[Patrick Wood]

Is there a correlation between one's ability to articulate ideas and their social class? Also, do wealthier people tend to be more verbose?

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Name : Patrick Wood, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Agnostic, Age : 19, City : Toronto, State : NA Country : Canada, Occupation : student, Education level : High School Diploma, Social class : Upper middle class, 

[Augustine23403]

I think there is a correlation, and it breaks down by gender as well. I have noticed that women from lower socio-economic classes tend to be quite articulate, whereas the men are not. It is almost as though talent with words is seen as a feminine trait in the lower classes. The more well-to-do classes are all over the place when it comes to effective use of words. There is the stereotypical 'inarticulate WASP', but I have found it more to be that wealthy people expect others to invest their words with great importance, whether in fact they are saying something important and intelligent or not. Also, some people who are 'just educated enough' (e.g., two years of college) use words like a sledgehammer, as though they will pound you into submission to their views with a superficially erudite discourse on this or that. Scratch the surface and what they are saying is often nonsense. Speaking nonsense, of course, is not the sole province of any socio-economic group.

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[Andrea K.]

There are likely some differences between ethnic groups, but those who are better-educated do tend to have better vocabularies. Children in higher-class households are often asked their opinion more often. I believe the Kennedys were required to report about something that had happened in the news every night at dinner. Social scientists have watched mothers interacting with their young children and have noted quite a bit more describing going on with higher-class white women. I don't think you can go by wealth as much as by class, although there are some newly wealthy people who think that, because they have money, they have more right to talk. There are also some upper-class groups (Boston Brahmins, for example) who are traditionally terse.

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[Monika]

I don't think that articulation has anything to do with social class or ethnicity. I think it has more to do with the fact that most politicians will listen to rich white folks before they listen to poor ethnic folks anyday. Money talks before people do.

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[Marcus]

Okay maybe the case. I'm the product of an impoverished existence and have been for most of my upbringing, but my mother being a teacher at the time read to me all my life. She never 'baby talked' to me and I was treated as if I had a voice in family decisions. My vocabulary is superior to a plethora of people regardless of class or status and continues to grow daily (I'm a avid reader) I believe it to be the methods in which you raise your children, and understanding how each person learns differently from the next.

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[Chaz]

Their is a correlation and wealthy people do tend to be more verbose, but this is a result of the wealthy being able to afford and sending their children to the finest academic institutions.

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[Charles32247]

I think that class has to do with intellectualism only so far as people a. Go to college and b. Enjoy learning. I went to a hoity-toity Ivy League school (on a ton of scholarships) and I do consider myself more articulate than a lot of people I meet. However, my family hasn't qualified as more than 'middle class' since the Civil War. Additionally, I met many people at my snooty ruling-class school who could barely communicate - and since getting out the most brilliant person I've ever met has been a woman with a University Studies degree cobbled together from three different state colleges.

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