I grew up strangely astride two different classes, two different socio-economic groups as well. We spent time at the country club with my dad's parents, doing golf related things, but activities with my mom's family - with whom we had more day-to-day interaction - were more likely to involve dirt roads and trampolines in North Florida. It was always my mom's family who valued my intelligence and my academic goals. My father's family just saw it as a totally normal thing, even though none of them have graduated college (my father's family was involved in the golf course industry and my grandfather is a golf course designer).
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Date: 2007-12-31 05:20 pm (UTC)