Re:What is it like to be poor at an Ivy League school?
by stegosaurus on Wednesday April 22, 2015 @09:33PM
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I feel we don't actually disagree.
I didn't have the sort of 'ski trip' nonsense. I mean it existed but didn't really affect me.
The subtle things do though. I had never met a middle class person in my age group before going to University. It's not just wealth. It's dinner, it's Radio 4, it's video games, it's national parks not Butlins. These things aren't really categorically 'superior', that's the thing. But they are kind of assumed in a way that doesn't happen for, say, immigrants.
(I grew up in a council house, not ex. but the african dude above has us both beat. :D)
I didn't have the sort of 'ski trip' nonsense. I mean it existed but didn't really affect me.
The subtle things do though. I had never met a middle class person in my age group before going to University. It's not just wealth. It's dinner, it's Radio 4, it's video games, it's national parks not Butlins. These things aren't really categorically 'superior', that's the thing. But they are kind of assumed in a way that doesn't happen for, say, immigrants.
(I grew up in a council house, not ex. but the african dude above has us both beat. :D)