nobody's got no class
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Father went to college
Father finished college
Mother went to college
Mother finished college
Have any relative who is an attorney, physician, or professor
Were the same or higher class than your high school teachers
Had more than 50 books in your childhood home
Had more than 500 books in your childhood home
Were read children's books by a parent
Had lessons of any kind before you turned 18
Had more than two kinds of lessons before you turned 18
The people in the media who dress and talk like me are portrayed positively
Had a credit card with your name on it before you turned 18
Your parents (or a trust) paid for the majority of your college costs
Your parents (or a trust) paid for all of your college costs
Went to a private high school
Went to summer camp
Had a private tutor before you turned 18
Family vacations involved staying at hotels
Your clothing was all bought new before you turned 18
Your parents bought you a car that was not a hand-me-down from them
There was original art in your house when you were a child
Had a phone in your room before you turned 18
You and your family lived in a single family house
Your parent(s) owned their own house or apartment before you left home
You had your own room as a child
Participated in an SAT/ACT prep course
Had your own TV in your room in High School
Owned a mutual fund or IRA in High School or College
Flew anywhere on a commercial airline before you turned 16
Went on a cruise with your family
Went on more than one cruise with your family
Your parents took you to museums and art galleries as you grew up.
You were unaware of how much heating bills were for your family
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katyakoshka, and have to qualify some of my responses as well.
Mom has a B.A. from CSULB, can't remember in what, and a teaching credential. (This also makes the teacher-class item a gimme, except for the teachers who had married up.) In the last 10-15 years she spent teaching, all the required enrichment courses counted for Masters-level credit, so she has the equivalent of an M.A. as well. Dad has an A.A. from Cerritos, can't remember whether he ever said in what.
I was a piano-lesson dropout and was subsequently barred from taking any sort of lessons ever again. I'm not counting the voice lessons inherent in school and church choir.
I shared a room with my sister until I was 8. Phones and TVs of our own were strictly forbidden. However, the jack for my dad's business phone in the hall was located on the wall of my room.
Almost all of the dresses I owned in elementary school were handmade by my grandmother. This stopped abruptly when one of them was made to a different pattern than I had picked out and my mom reported that I had said the alternate pattern was ugly. I don't think either of them ever forgave me for that.
College tuition was paid for by Regents' and other scholarships, with incidental money coming from accounts funded by my dad's side business. The biggest screaming fight I ever had with my parents was over my near-failure to submit the UC application on time, because they'd never told me they didn't have the money to send me anywhere else without serious debt and/or scholarships. The next morning, I had a practice SAT on which I scored 1430. This was not representative of the score I eventually got on the real thing and served only to scare me. I don't recommend prep courses for just this reason.
Some vacations were hotels/motels (more heavily the latter), and some were camping/trailer. Basically, once we got the trailer, if we could take it, we did.
And as for portraying "people who dress and talk like me" in the media...which media are we talking about? The media that demonizes nerds or the media that encourages women to act as if they're my age (or younger) till they hit menopause? The fact that Hollywood is in California means that most US actors share my accent, but that doesn't equate to positive popularity. Especially when cynicism is the new black and portraying someone positively means they just have to be horrible in real life. Still, I'll take realism and variation as positive because I know that's what the question really means.
My parents were very good at giving me and my sister other reasons than money for doing or not doing some things. We went to Disneyland only once a year so it wouldn't stop being special, only went to theaters for the Disney re-releases because there was nothing else fit for children to watch, and went out to dinner no more than once a week because there just wasn't time any day but Friday. I didn't have a pair of real jeans until middle school because it wasn't appropriate to do P.E. in them. Shopping consisted of scouring clearance racks for hours because clothes were ridiculously overpriced when they weren't on sale, and my mom should know because she used to make all her own clothes and had to buy the fabric, etc. etc. On the other hand, we were never denied the opportunity to buy books, as long as they were paperback. And we always had computers around, although quite often at the beginning they weren't ours but borrowed by my dad from his co-workers or his side business. Add to this weird amalgam the fact that class for kids is also heavily based on popularity, which I didn't have, and I'm amazed I grew up with any understanding of class at all.
The list is based on an exercise developed by Will Barratt, Meagan Cahill, Angie Carlen, Minnette Huck, Drew Lurker, Stacy Ploskonka at Illinois State University. The exercise developers ask that if you participate in this blog game, you acknowledge their copyright.
If you post this in your blog, please leave a comment on this post. To participate in this blog game, copy and paste the above list into your blog, and bold the items that are true for you. If you don't have a blog, feel free to post your responses in the comments.
Father went to college
Father finished college
Mother went to college
Mother finished college
Have any relative who is an attorney, physician, or professor
Were the same or higher class than your high school teachers
Had more than 50 books in your childhood home
Had more than 500 books in your childhood home
Were read children's books by a parent
Had lessons of any kind before you turned 18
Had more than two kinds of lessons before you turned 18
The people in the media who dress and talk like me are portrayed positively
Had a credit card with your name on it before you turned 18
Your parents (or a trust) paid for the majority of your college costs
Your parents (or a trust) paid for all of your college costs
Went to a private high school
Went to summer camp
Had a private tutor before you turned 18
Family vacations involved staying at hotels
Your clothing was all bought new before you turned 18
Your parents bought you a car that was not a hand-me-down from them
There was original art in your house when you were a child
Had a phone in your room before you turned 18
You and your family lived in a single family house
Your parent(s) owned their own house or apartment before you left home
You had your own room as a child
Participated in an SAT/ACT prep course
Had your own TV in your room in High School
Owned a mutual fund or IRA in High School or College
Flew anywhere on a commercial airline before you turned 16
Went on a cruise with your family
Went on more than one cruise with your family
Your parents took you to museums and art galleries as you grew up.
You were unaware of how much heating bills were for your family
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katyakoshka, and have to qualify some of my responses as well.Mom has a B.A. from CSULB, can't remember in what, and a teaching credential. (This also makes the teacher-class item a gimme, except for the teachers who had married up.) In the last 10-15 years she spent teaching, all the required enrichment courses counted for Masters-level credit, so she has the equivalent of an M.A. as well. Dad has an A.A. from Cerritos, can't remember whether he ever said in what.
I was a piano-lesson dropout and was subsequently barred from taking any sort of lessons ever again. I'm not counting the voice lessons inherent in school and church choir.
I shared a room with my sister until I was 8. Phones and TVs of our own were strictly forbidden. However, the jack for my dad's business phone in the hall was located on the wall of my room.
Almost all of the dresses I owned in elementary school were handmade by my grandmother. This stopped abruptly when one of them was made to a different pattern than I had picked out and my mom reported that I had said the alternate pattern was ugly. I don't think either of them ever forgave me for that.
College tuition was paid for by Regents' and other scholarships, with incidental money coming from accounts funded by my dad's side business. The biggest screaming fight I ever had with my parents was over my near-failure to submit the UC application on time, because they'd never told me they didn't have the money to send me anywhere else without serious debt and/or scholarships. The next morning, I had a practice SAT on which I scored 1430. This was not representative of the score I eventually got on the real thing and served only to scare me. I don't recommend prep courses for just this reason.
Some vacations were hotels/motels (more heavily the latter), and some were camping/trailer. Basically, once we got the trailer, if we could take it, we did.
And as for portraying "people who dress and talk like me" in the media...which media are we talking about? The media that demonizes nerds or the media that encourages women to act as if they're my age (or younger) till they hit menopause? The fact that Hollywood is in California means that most US actors share my accent, but that doesn't equate to positive popularity. Especially when cynicism is the new black and portraying someone positively means they just have to be horrible in real life. Still, I'll take realism and variation as positive because I know that's what the question really means.
My parents were very good at giving me and my sister other reasons than money for doing or not doing some things. We went to Disneyland only once a year so it wouldn't stop being special, only went to theaters for the Disney re-releases because there was nothing else fit for children to watch, and went out to dinner no more than once a week because there just wasn't time any day but Friday. I didn't have a pair of real jeans until middle school because it wasn't appropriate to do P.E. in them. Shopping consisted of scouring clearance racks for hours because clothes were ridiculously overpriced when they weren't on sale, and my mom should know because she used to make all her own clothes and had to buy the fabric, etc. etc. On the other hand, we were never denied the opportunity to buy books, as long as they were paperback. And we always had computers around, although quite often at the beginning they weren't ours but borrowed by my dad from his co-workers or his side business. Add to this weird amalgam the fact that class for kids is also heavily based on popularity, which I didn't have, and I'm amazed I grew up with any understanding of class at all.
