Posted on 03/04/2008 9:13:51 AM PST by K-oneTexas
The attitude of the Ladies Who Lunch and their insulated coterie is the primary argument against allowing one’s children to associate ONLY with people their own age and their own social class. If all you hear is an echo of your own beliefs, you cannot help but assume that what you hear must be the truth. We still chuckle (50 years later!) at the faux pas of my 12 year old cousin, pampered only child of wealthy parents, who, after listening to her elders discussing poverty in the small rural town where Mama’s family has lived since the 1600s, asked “Well, if poor people don’t have money, why don’t they just charge things? That’s what my Mama does.”
And of course we have Pauline Kael who could not understand why Nixon was elected since nobody she knew had voted for him.
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