Class meme

via seeking academia

Bold the statements that are true. Seen it everywhere.... Though this list is not all encompassing, it is still relevant

1. Father went to college (one semester)
2. Father finished college
3. Mother went to college
4. Mother finished college
5. Have any relative who is an attorney, physician, or professor
6. Were the same or higher class than your high school teachers.
7. Had more than 50 books in your childhood home.
8. Had more than 500 books in your childhood home.
9. Were read children's books by a parent
10. Had lessons of any kind before you turned 18 (no really long-term lessons)
11. Had more than two kinds of lessons before you turned 18
12. The people in the media who dress and talk like me are portrayed
13. Had a credit card with your name on it before you turned 18
14. Your parents (or a trust) paid for the majority of your college costs
15. Your parents (or a trust) paid for all of your college costs
16. Went to a private high school
17. Went to summer camp
18. Had a private tutor before you turned 18
19. Family vacations involved staying at hotels
20. Your clothing was all bought new before you turned 18
21. Your parents bought you a car that was not a hand-me-down from them
22. There was original art in your house when you were a child (dad's an amateur artist)
23. You and your family lived in a single-family house
24. Your parent(s) owned their own house or apartment before you left home
25. You had your own room as a child (2-kid, 2-bedroom house, but part of childhood spent in makeshift bedroom in basement due to incompatibilities)
27. Participated in a SAT/ACT prep course (high school curriculum, of course, was teaching to the test)
28. Had your own TV in your room in high school (at times I had garbage picked TV's that worked)
29. Owned a mutual fund or IRA in high school or college
30. Flew anywhere on a commercial airline before you turned 16 (still an air travel virgin at age 42)
31. Went on a cruise with your family
32. Went on more than one cruise with your family
33. Your parents took you to museums and art galleries as you grew up
34. You were unaware of how much heating bills were for your family (mom involved us kids in family bookkeeping, we were aware of all the bills)

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Quotations with links

"Before we turn all of America into a gated community, with a 700 mile steel fence running along the southern border, we should consider the mixed history of exclusionary walls."--Barbara Ehrenreich

"...anarchists reject both privatisation and nationalisation."--Anarcho

"Tired of Poll-Driven News Coverage of Elections, Instead of Issue-Driven News Coverage? Lie to a Pollster."--Rex Frankel

"So, when my sweetie tells the Big Phone Company that his [sic] going to the Big Cable Company for Internet service, I just had to laugh. (Behind his back, of course. He's pretty irritated.) I wish him luck on that one."--Happy Chyck

"As far as state welfare goes, anarchists do not place it high on the list of things we are struggling against (once the welfare state for the rich has been abolished, then, perhaps, we will reconsider that)."--from the Anarchist FAQ

"I'll believe 'transhumanists' who claim to advocate consensual therapeutic multiculture as I do when more of them show anything like real concern about the ways in which savagely unequal distributions of authority, resources, reliable information, and legal redress duress the actually existing scene of consent in the present."--Dale Carrico

"In recent years, 'bipartisanship' and 'national unity' have usually meant meeting the GOP halfway, regardless of how far right it veers, with agreement an end in itself."--Reg

"The poor are made to feel guilty and ashamed of their poverty, their illness and their unemployment, when they should be angry."--Dave Pollard

"Shopping malls are full of security cameras, but many have signs at the entrance telling customers that no photography or video recording is allowed."--David Brin

"The quadrennial political puppet show, highlighting not opposition but its appearance, is essential to keeping the captive-taking war machine running and to inoculating the American people from the viral knowledge that they themselves were first to be captured."--James Carroll

"Thus, 'economic freedom' would mean freedom from the economy--from being controlled by economic forces and relationships."--Herbert Marcuse, quoted by Jack Saturday