This may get me strung up on Twitter, but one of the main reasons folks don't move from a lower *economic* class to a higher one very easily is because they don't know the proper cues from the corresponding *social* class.https://twitter.com/KarenDZachary/status/1029183717162475520 …
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I remember when I was trying to make my way into tech a founder told me he had a job for me and to "ping" him. I had no idea what that meant, I googled forever and ended up emailing someone and asking what that meant. Now I say "ping me" all the time, not even thinking about it
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Replying to @Austen @AustenAllred
I have *so many* stories like this, especially pre- and at-university. The Japan factor then insulated me from it for sufficiently long to be able to mostly successfully fake professional class on both sides of the Pacific.
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"What social class did you grow up in, Patrick?" Mom once called a McDonalds that I was in with the math team to ask the manager would he please give me a burger and we would come by and pay for it later. (This sounds like either a joke or "We were *very* poor"; was neither.)
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