I mean, being born in this country is damn privileged compared to most of the rest of the world...
Definitely! Reality checks like this are a good thing. What gets me is that most of my peers are privledged above the average American, and I think most of them still don't realize it. Hell, I was more privledged than my peers growing up and I barely realized that, and only when I did student teaching did I realize they were privledged above the rest of America.
I mean, college degree w/o loans? Check, but I paid for it all myself.
Others could also check that one off b/c it doesn't say when the debt was paid off. My check was b/c I got a full merit scholarship. I was also lucky in the brain I was born with. But we realize this! Most people in our position, most middle-to-upper class people, think that anybody can get ahead with hard work. Maybe we did work hard in school, but without our good fortune to have our brains, that wouldn't've been possible. Being smart wasn't something we did.
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Date: 2006-04-13 03:59 pm (UTC)Definitely! Reality checks like this are a good thing. What gets me is that most of my peers are privledged above the average American, and I think most of them still don't realize it. Hell, I was more privledged than my peers growing up and I barely realized that, and only when I did student teaching did I realize they were privledged above the rest of America.
I mean, college degree w/o loans? Check, but I paid for it all myself.
Others could also check that one off b/c it doesn't say when the debt was paid off. My check was b/c I got a full merit scholarship. I was also lucky in the brain I was born with. But we realize this! Most people in our position, most middle-to-upper class people, think that anybody can get ahead with hard work. Maybe we did work hard in school, but without our good fortune to have our brains, that wouldn't've been possible. Being smart wasn't something we did.