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jadis 01-17-2022 04:58 AM

There are private boarding schools in Europe and elsewhere but the myths of preppiedom are very peculiar to the American psyche. The great Angela Carter, who was very familiar with American culture when she went to teach there, was still baffled by it:

"That being preppy might have hardened into a style a goodly number of non-preppies might either aspire to, or feel obscurely threatened by, was a notion beyond my ken."

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Why would it not exist in Eastern Europe?
Whatever was the structure of society in the countries that spent several decades under communist dictatorships, it had little to do with the tripartite division into working, middle and upper classes.

In general, every society has its divisions into groups based on, among others, wealth and access to education; but "class" invokes the divisions characteristic of the industrial society in the 19th century with regards to "means of production" and thus has limited application in other contexts.

The Batlord 01-17-2022 05:13 AM

You are the king preppy effete college bitch.

Trollheart 01-17-2022 05:21 AM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 2196930)
A library card is free. I know you just want a peace of paper so you don't have to feel like the hoi polloi.



I think not wasting thousands of dollars on a vanity degree is a pretty good life choice.

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Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 2196936)
Oh and look at all these preppy middle class bitches coming out the wood works. Acting like I just **** on their identities cause I told some dude not to go to college.

*woodwork.

Now who needs to learn English? You misspell? That's unpossible!

The Batlord 01-17-2022 05:26 AM

Get back to your filth farming, paddy, or I'll tell the king you were besmirching St. George's cross.

jadis 01-17-2022 05:36 AM

Having spent a lot of time on east coast campuses, I can honestly say I have almost nothing in common with preppie WASPs. Different culture, different social etiquette, different interests, different goals in life, different everything. Different sexual tastes even (every preppy WASP guy I know is into girls who look like Marnie from Girls and also like all their moms).

To quote Carter again, "to look like a preppy, to feel like a preppy, does
not mean one becomes a preppy, since the essence of being a preppy is being second generation middle class. A decision about the kind of education you are to receive which is taken in early adolescence, is a decision that is taken for you."

My upbringing includes a family of Soviet immigrants and Montreal's francophone public school system. People from expensive private schools in Massachusetts had completely different socialization from mine. Not better or worse or more or less privileged, but just completely different.

jadis 01-17-2022 05:39 AM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 2196958)
Yeah Croatians are either Prime Ministers or dirt farmers, right?

I'm thinking of late-Soviet and post-Soviet Russia tbh. Whatever went on there in the 1980s and 1980s, "class" is not a great explanatory tool for it.

The Batlord 01-17-2022 05:51 AM

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Originally Posted by jadis (Post 2196968)
Having spent a lot of time on east coast campuses, I can honestly say I have almost nothing in common with preppie WASPs. Different culture, different social etiquette, different interests, different goals in life, different everything. Different sexual tastes even (every preppy WASP guy I know is into girls who look like Marnie from Girls and also like all their moms).

To quote Carter again, "to look like a preppy, to feel like a preppy, does
not mean one becomes a preppy, since the essence of being a preppy is being second generation middle class. A decision about the kind of education you are to receive which is taken in early adolescence, is a decision that is taken for you."

My upbringing includes a family of Soviet immigrants and Montreal's francophone public school system. People from expensive private schools in Massachusetts had completely different socialization from mine. Not better or worse or more or less privileged, but just completely different.

So the difference between you and a WASP is that you are Catholic.

The Batlord 01-17-2022 05:56 AM

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Originally Posted by jadis (Post 2196969)
I'm thinking of late-Soviet and post-Soviet Russia tbh. Whatever went on there in the 1980s and 1980s, "class" is not a great explanatory tool for it.

Actual Croatians.

https://bloody-disgusting.com/images...s/inbred/8.jpg

jadis 01-17-2022 06:04 AM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 2196971)
So the difference between you and a WASP is that you are Catholic.

Yes, if there's one thing immigrants from the former USSR are famous for, it's being Catholic.

You are giving neckbeards who learn everything they know from 90 IQ Twitch streamers a bad name rn

The Batlord 01-17-2022 06:33 AM

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Originally Posted by jadis (Post 2196973)
Yes, if there's one thing immigrants from the former USSR are famous for, it's being Catholic.

You are giving neckbeards who learn everything they know from 90 IQ Twitch streamers a bad name rn

You just said you were French.


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