I think there is a distinct class the author did not mention which I would call the Academic class.
I feel like I can fake being part of this class, but decidedly am not. I really took to school, though. My mom and her brothers, and really even my grandma and grandpa were really uneducated, but very, very smart. My youngest uncle got scholarships to different higher level high schools, but got in trouble for taking the tests and couldn't go. He ended up going in the Army, and then worked for the Post Office, where he worked his way up to being the supplies manager for the region. He retired at 50 to become a massage therapist. My mom worked for Social Services as a Welfare Examinaer, and my other uncle cut trees for Niagara Mowhawk Power company. Everyone but my mom ended up with awesome retirement benefits. My mom and uncles read like crazy people and our family get-togethers include massive, massive trivial pursuit games. My kind of mean uncle does make fun of me a lot for being too educated, which is kind of weird.
Second Google interview went well. I'm hoping to know what's what this week. Have successfully stalled other job offer company. Now I will make a big pot of chili and then send thank you e-mails.
Second Google interview went well.
Yay! And lots of fingers crossed.
Woo-hoo! Google and chili sounds like a fabulous Monday!
Woo hoo, shrift!! Fingers crossed!!!
I'd think most "Academic Class" are middle class. Sometimes they came from money or poverty and make or lose money, but its basically Respectable Middle Class.
It seems like a lot of Americans would like to think that we don't HAVE class divisions, that its somehow unamerican to think in those terms. And that may have been some early utopian meritocracy vision of what the Republic would be... but what wound up happening is that we
do
have social classes, we just have the not-so-common in the world ability to switch between them.
we just have the not-so-common in the world ability to switch between them
I was just watching a documentary about China yesterday, and they were giving examples of class switching. Once China's doing it, it's almost by default not uncommon anymore, no?
Asks she with the cousin who was one generation from barefoot-to-school and now sits in British Parliament.
