[Gary W.]

First, remember that the concept of “legal tender” relates only to the settlement of a debt; so an establishment could certainly refuse to make a sale unless payment were in an acceptable form. Next, the recipient of payment certainly has a right to verify the amount offered in payment; perhaps they have a right to charge for the cost of counting the coin even when the coins are offered in settlement of a debt. Finally, I believe I have read that statute law makes various coins legal tender only up to specified amounts.

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Name : Gary W., Gender : M, Age : 51, City : Golden, State : CO, Country : United States, Occupation : Accountant, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, 

[Gary W.]

From everything I have seen in the popular press, it is usual in the United States – indeed almost de rigeur – to identify oneself as middle class. To identify oneself as upper class sounds arrogant (how many politicians do you know who stress their upper-class backgrounds?); to identify oneself as poor can sound self-pitying, and lower class self-derogatory.

Basically, I’d say that in the United States, if your income comes from employment, you’re middle class. If you don’t have a job, you might be either lower class or upper class. Sub-dividing the middle class probably requires a complex matrix based on income, education and occupation; but since such a matrix has not been published here, I’d say the safest thing is to call yourself middle-middle class.

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[Gary W.]

In Spain, the walls of the houses go right up to the street, and whatever plant life there may be is in an interior courtyard. Its presence or absence is of interest only to the residents. But here, our lawns are exposed to public view, and make public statements about us. An ugly lawn says either that I am incompetent (which is why I make some minimal effort at least not to have the worst one on my block) or that I have rejected the aesthetic values of my neighbors.

I suspect that whether it is important to one that he is regarded by his neighbors as competent in areas they have defined as important is more a function of personality than race. Lawns are possibly a social indicator in the suburbs simply because they are a characteristic that marks the homes as suburban (and thus as the abode of “successful” occupants).

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