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I agree. Class is about more than just income. While this attitude is more prevalent in Europe I’d say, we still have it here. Class is about family lines, how long your family has had money, how distinguished your family was, whether they came over on the Mayflower…lots of things which basically amount to snooty white folk who didn’t do anything themselves, but our instead distinguished by their ancestors!!! Personally, I think it’s kind of disgusting. I mean, be proud for what you’ve done, not what your ancestors have done before you! Besides, your accomplishments mean more if you’ve come from a background that didn’t stress those things – you had to worker harder to achieve it. Here in Boston they’re known as the Boston Brahmin. When I was sworn in as an attorney in one state, we had to have sponsors (attorneys who were already a member in good standing of the bar) speak on our behalf and make a motion before the court to admit us; I couldn’t believe it but some sponsors actually stood up and said how many generations their admittee had been in the area, or even how many generations of lawyers had been in the family! It was quite outrageous. I am quite sorry, but my grandparents were illiterate so they just had no chance of being attorneys. G. William Domhoff wrote a book ‘Who Rules America?’ which argued that about 400 prominent families in the U.S. really controlled power and wealth, and they are informally cohesive by social organizations like Daughters of the American Revolution, the Skull and Bones club at Yale…basically organizations which virtually ensure by the membership standards that you are rich, white, and male. I’m going to stop now, this is getting too depressing.
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Name : Rachel, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Asian, Religion : Catholic, Age : 27, City : Boston, State : MA, Country : United States, Occupation : Attorney, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Upper middle class,I am Filippino but I can tell you I’ve never heard of such a thing. However, I was watching a Discovery channel program on sexual practices with the noted anthropologist Desmond Morris, and he visited the Philippines and visited a few ‘sex shops’ where MEN – they never showed any women getting these things done – would get subcutaenous inserts in their penis to better please their partner. Let me tell you, it doesn’t look like these establishments are widespread, and it certainly wasn’t regulated by the state like piercings here in the U.S. are. But sorry, I’ve never seen anything about piercings being widespread.
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Name : Rachel, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Asian, Religion : Catholic, Age : 27, City : Boston, State : MA, Country : United States, Occupation : Attorney, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Upper middle class,People go through higher educations for more than just to work in the field; it provides them the choice of what they can do at all. I volunteer with Junior Achievement, which teaches kids about business and economics, and I had a 5th grade class. I told them that because I have my J.D. I have any number of choices of what I want to do. I’m not pigeonholed into just one thing because I’m not educated. The other reason may be this guy just doesn’t have any ambition to do anything else, or perhaps his master’s degree is in something completely worthless, like Philosophy or another social science. Unless you’re going to be an academic or a teacher, master’s degrees in the social sciences are totally worthless. They also hand out master’s if you fail to get your Ph.D., as a kind of consolation prize. Besides, he might be making more money doing the job he’s in now – teachers really don’t make that much money!
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Name : Rachel, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Asian, Religion : Catholic, Age : 27, City : Boston, State : MA, Country : United States, Occupation : Attorney, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Upper middle class,I had a friend at work who was black and she refused to eat watermelon and fried chicken (although if you ask me, she didn’t know what she was missing!) because she said she didn’t like the stereotypes they conjured up. Look back at old vaudeville jokes and skits – the performers would use blackface and watermelons.
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Name : Rachel, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Asian, Religion : Catholic, Age : 27, City : Boston, State : MA, Country : United States, Occupation : Attorney, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Upper middle class,He should wear what he likes. Forget about people who are going to judge him by his clothes – people who ‘judge a book by its cover’ clearly are not the type of enlightened people you’d want to be friends with. There are also plenty of labels and designers out there who do not feel the need to splash their logo or initials all over their clothing line; in fact, I’d say the more upscale the line is, the less likely there would be any identifying marks on the clothes. By the way, I found when I got out of high school that such little petty things really dropped out of the consciousness. High school is really just a terrible environment that fosters divisiveness.
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Name : Rachel, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Asian, Religion : Catholic, Age : 27, City : Boston, State : MA, Country : United States, Occupation : Attorney, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Upper middle class,I have been wondering where the cornrow hairstyles originated from. I was watching the news about an upscale hotel and one of its employees; she was black and wore her hair in braids. The hotel told her her hairstyle was inappropriate for the ‘image’ of the hotel and wasn’t neat and clean. She countered that her style was ‘traditional’ and was an original hairstyle in Africa. Now, I can’t say I’ve ever been to Africa, but I watch the Discovery channel, TLC and PBS all the time, and can’t say that I’ve ever seen braided hairstyles worn in Africa, only in the Carribean and among African-Americans, and of course, young teeny bopper pop stars. For the record, the hotel employee’s hair was perfectly neat – she wore it up.
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Name : Rachel, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Asian, Religion : Catholic, Age : 27, City : Boston, State : MA, Country : United States, Occupation : Attorney, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Upper middle class,
