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Look at the current President of the United States. Did he have the type of upbringing you are envisioning here?

• larrys 13y ago
  Well fwiw Obama's father did go to Harvard: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama,_Sr http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama,_Sr. I'm sure that factored somewhat in Obama getting into Harvard which of course led to a world of opportunities.
• Iftheshoefits 13y ago
  Yes, actually. His parents were a Harvard alumnus and a mother who was both gifted and accomplished in Anthropology (with a wide network) and the people who raised him from age 10, his grandparents, were hardly "middle class" in the one-breadwinner-midwestern-auto-worker sense of the word. They were at minimum on the affluent side of middle-class. So, Obama's childhood is not even close to being typical. He started with a leg-up that only got better as time went along. About the only true obstacle in his way has been his race--which is decidedly a huge one to have overcome, especially in America, where racism is still deeply embedded in our society in a number of ways, and was much much worse during his formative years. But his economic and family environment put him way, way ahead of even the typical American's.
  • qq66 13y ago
    How many thousands of people had a Harvard alumnus for a father and gifted and accomplished woman for a mother? How many of those thousands became president?
    • Iftheshoefits 13y ago
      Your second question is entirely irrelevant in the context of this discussion. "Become President" is just not a reasonable minimum measure of "success."