Took the bubble quiz (got 30) but I felt it was a little weird for immigrant kids, since so many questions were about active participation in white working-class culture. My father came from a tiny dinky rural village that lost thirty people when he was a toddler due to the Great Chinese Famine, but despite growing up with both parents going on about food scarcity and getting sick of yams, it did not mean I know what a Bransons is, that I've been to IHOP, or that I've seen Lost. (Although these elements being part of what includes one in a culture would explain why I was at such an intense disconnect with the working class kids in my grade school...) I suspect that Hispanic people answering these questions may feel similarly--they've got their own working class culture, I'd imagine.
EDIT: Wow, look at the kind of comments I leave on thoughtful posts if I get distracted by a link and forget about everything I'd read previously.
IDK if I really have anything positive to say. I'm intensely pessimistic about every prognosis. I do feel like it makes a difference to have a variety of close friends, though. If you work in a soup kitchen you get used to doing a routine act that serves people you see in a certain submissive light and it's not really the same as being concerned for someone in a shitty situation they can't get out of.
EDIT 2, about the stupid quiz again: I realized that I had been forgetting major parts of my childhood, retook the quiz, and got 35. Apparently 12 more years counted toward living in a working class neighborhood and marching in a parade for band didn't help my case much. :P
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Date: 2014-11-02 08:45 pm (UTC)EDIT: Wow, look at the kind of comments I leave on thoughtful posts if I get distracted by a link and forget about everything I'd read previously.
IDK if I really have anything positive to say. I'm intensely pessimistic about every prognosis. I do feel like it makes a difference to have a variety of close friends, though. If you work in a soup kitchen you get used to doing a routine act that serves people you see in a certain submissive light and it's not really the same as being concerned for someone in a shitty situation they can't get out of.
EDIT 2, about the stupid quiz again: I realized that I had been forgetting major parts of my childhood, retook the quiz, and got 35. Apparently 12 more years counted toward living in a working class neighborhood and marching in a parade for band didn't help my case much. :P