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And also surprising the author did not experience it at Uni where even well off middle class people, suddenly are mixing with much wealthier people. I remeber
by Mauricebranagh 5y ago
And also surprising the author did not experience it at Uni where even well off middle class people, suddenly are mixing with much wealthier people.
I remeber my cousin who went to UMIST saying this and that side of the family was well off.
Its even more noticeable if you went to oxbridge and bumped into some one like Borris Johnson and his Bullingdon mates.
- fossuser 5y agoThis is highly dependent on university - I didn’t notice it much where I went (RPI), but it’s a lot more obvious at Stanford.
- OminousWeapons 5y agoI think this is school dependent. In my experience, many wealthy kids will hide behaviors they know are associated with being wealthy / hide their backgrounds in order to better fit in. The awkwardness goes both ways.
- Mauricebranagh 5y agoMiddle class kids might, not upper class wealthy ones not so much.
- kixiQu 5y agoNot all of us went to schools that have "much wealthier people" attending, of course.
- Mauricebranagh 5y agoI find that hard to believe unless your country has a very stratified higher education system - which is a bad thing.
- kixiQu 5y agoWell, my country is the US, and I am speaking from experience. I'm definitely not saying it's a good thing. It's just important to acknowledge that "the college experience" of elites and the elite-adjacent doesn't represent the common post-secondary case here.