“quote:
She is so much more a citizen of the world than I am. (I grew up in a working class white LI suburb.)
She’s more of a citizen of the world than you because she is growing up with the internet, NOYT because she isnt growing up in a working class white LI suburb. sometimes i don’t see the connections you try to make and sometimes im equally baffled by your constant disparaging of where you came from. many people who came from working class backgrounds become “citizens of the world”. im not even sure what you mean by that. do you mean someone who eats in a different ethnic restaurant every night?”
Rob;
Let me explain this mentality to you: liberal white guilt, just like Dittoburg said above. Notice the logic here: if someone grows up in a mostly white area: “provincial”. Someone who grows up in a mostly black area: “citizen of the world”!!
quote:
She is so much more a citizen of the world than I am. (I grew up in a working class white LI suburb.)
She’s more of a citizen of the world than you because she is growing up with the internet, NOYT because she isnt growing up in a working class white LI suburb. sometimes i don’t see the connections you try to make and sometimes im equally baffled by your constant disparaging of where you came from. many people who came from working class backgrounds become “citizens of the world”. im not even sure what you mean by that. do you mean someone who eats in a different ethnic restaurant every night? i feel like that’s what some people see it is as. also people who come from priviledged backgrounds are just as much inside their own little bubble of reality as working class people, if that was what you meant by it.
Blowfish, what school do you think your kids will go to? I know you live in Clinton Hill which is not so big, but there are a lot of schools–some a lot better than others. Where we lived in Clinton Hill was zoned for PS56 (Gates and Dowling) and I decided not to send my kid there because I could see what the kids who went there were learning (not much!). But that was a long time ago. And I am sure that now you couldn’t get your kid into a District 2 school without a family member to give you an address–it was different then.
My kid has always lived with me in mostly-black neighborhoods but always went to schools with at least a plurality of Chinese kids (she is Chinese, a freshman at Brooklyn Tech). But she’s gone to camps and other programs where all the other kids were black. She is so much more a citizen of the world than I am. (I grew up in a working class white LI suburb.)
I love to talk about schools. Let me know if you want to talk offlist. Or maybe in between volleyball games at the next Cobblesnaps Production–my kid can babysit for you, unless BHS and Wendy sign her up first.
Make that “shoulder-to-shoulder”. I really should proof read before I hit the send button.
“quote:
She is so much more a citizen of the world than I am. (I grew up in a working class white LI suburb.)
She’s more of a citizen of the world than you because she is growing up with the internet, NOYT because she isnt growing up in a working class white LI suburb. sometimes i don’t see the connections you try to make and sometimes im equally baffled by your constant disparaging of where you came from. many people who came from working class backgrounds become “citizens of the world”. im not even sure what you mean by that. do you mean someone who eats in a different ethnic restaurant every night?”
Rob;
Let me explain this mentality to you: liberal white guilt, just like Dittoburg said above. Notice the logic here: if someone grows up in a mostly white area: “provincial”. Someone who grows up in a mostly black area: “citizen of the world”!!
Good grief.
Lech;
Hope you can salvage some of the weekend.
Also, I’m sholder-to-sholder with you: never touched the stuff.
Sometimes I think I’m literally the only person in the entire world who doesn’t smoke weed.
Stuck at work all day and late tonight working on a merger agreement 🙁
are you surprised? who do you know that can seriously listen to palin without putting a little choke in the air?
😉
my conservative republican jesus loving palin worshipping midwestern step mother in law smokes weed????????
quote:
She is so much more a citizen of the world than I am. (I grew up in a working class white LI suburb.)
She’s more of a citizen of the world than you because she is growing up with the internet, NOYT because she isnt growing up in a working class white LI suburb. sometimes i don’t see the connections you try to make and sometimes im equally baffled by your constant disparaging of where you came from. many people who came from working class backgrounds become “citizens of the world”. im not even sure what you mean by that. do you mean someone who eats in a different ethnic restaurant every night? i feel like that’s what some people see it is as. also people who come from priviledged backgrounds are just as much inside their own little bubble of reality as working class people, if that was what you meant by it.
*rob*
Shameless shilling, shameless, rf! 😉
Blowfish, what school do you think your kids will go to? I know you live in Clinton Hill which is not so big, but there are a lot of schools–some a lot better than others. Where we lived in Clinton Hill was zoned for PS56 (Gates and Dowling) and I decided not to send my kid there because I could see what the kids who went there were learning (not much!). But that was a long time ago. And I am sure that now you couldn’t get your kid into a District 2 school without a family member to give you an address–it was different then.
My kid has always lived with me in mostly-black neighborhoods but always went to schools with at least a plurality of Chinese kids (she is Chinese, a freshman at Brooklyn Tech). But she’s gone to camps and other programs where all the other kids were black. She is so much more a citizen of the world than I am. (I grew up in a working class white LI suburb.)
I love to talk about schools. Let me know if you want to talk offlist. Or maybe in between volleyball games at the next Cobblesnaps Production–my kid can babysit for you, unless BHS and Wendy sign her up first.