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Copied Disclaimer: From "What Privileges Do You Have?", based on an exercise about class and privilege developed by Will Barratt, Meagan Cahill, Angie Carlen, Minnette Huck, Drew Lurker, Stacy Ploskonka at Illinois State University. If you participate in this blog game, they ask that you PLEASE acknowledge their copyright.
Actual link found via google (because I like to check these things :)): Take a Step Forward
Bold the true statements.
1. Father went to college It was free back then you know
2. Father finished college ...and then gave it up to backpack around europe instead :)
3. Mother went to college ...for about a week, and then crashed spectacularly
4. Mother finished college
5. Have any relative who is an attorney, physician, or professor. (I'm assuming a nurse doesn't count)
6. Were the same or higher class than your high school teachers. Hahaha. No.
7. Had more than 50 books in your childhood home. Can't complain there
8. Had more than 500 books in your childhood home.
9. Were read children's books by a parent. My mum is awesome at funny voices
10. Had lessons of any kind before you turned 18.
11. Had more than two kinds of lessons before you turned 18. Swimming and drama
12. The people in the media who dress and talk like me are portrayed positively. I guess
13. Had a credit card with your name on it before you turned 18.
14. Your parents (or a trust) paid for the majority of your college costs. (Ha. I did get financial assistance from the government due to my parents poverty but that doesn't count.)
15. Your parents (or a trust) paid for all of your college costs
16. Went to a private high school. On a scholarship, but I won't pretend it didn't help
17. Went to summer camp (Not that I recall)
18. Had a private tutor before you turned 18
19. Family vacations involved staying at hotels
20. Your clothing was all bought new before you turned 18. (hahaha. No. Admittedly some of it was very fancy hand-me-downs from my mum's friend who was married to an oil magnate in London and had kids slightly older than us)
21. Your parents bought you a car that was not a hand-me-down from them. (My parents car was a hand-me-down from their parents.)
22. There was original art in your house when you were a child By my parents!
23. You and your family lived in a single-family house Is this rare? I honestly can't think of anyone in my quite poor primary school for whom this wasn't true.
24. Your parent(s) owned their own house or apartment before you left home. (Homeswest all the way baby! They did inherit some money and buy their house a few years ago but I was well gone by then)
25. You had your own room as a child I was the oldest, though, and the next two were the same age and so suited sharing.
26. You had a phone in your room before you turned 18
27. Participated in a SAT/ACT prep course Where I met my first boyfriend :)
28. Had your own TV in your room in high school
29. Owned a mutual fund or IRA in high school or college. (Or, you know, ever. Who owns those in highschool?)
30. Flew anywhere on a commercial airline before you turned 16 On Compass, though. To Adelaide. So I'm not sure it counts :)
31. Went on a cruise with your family.
32. Went on more than one cruise with your family
33. Your parents took you to museums and art galleries as you grew up. Free but culturally stimulating, perfect for my parents :)
34. You were unaware of how much heating bills were for your family. On the other hand, we didn't own an airconditioner at all, which I think is more relevant to Australia.
So in summary: poor parents who tried incredibly hard (and quite successfully) to make up for the lack of money with a good education and lots of encouragement.
They missed things about stability/safety and not having things you needed bought for you which I found made a difference to my life (saving up your austudy so you can bail your parents out when they're about to get evicted=not buying all your textbooks) They also interestingly missed on anything remotely referring to gender, race etc, but I can see how that would be divisive.
Since it's interesting to look at generational change: I'd say my parents were more privileged than me growing, they're poor now entirely for internal, emotional reasons (partly simply not caring very much about money or success) My maternal granddad is a good example of my families varying fortunes from intelligence and hard work vs odd life choices/emotional problems and bad luck: he was born into money, then sent to an orphanage when his parents died, then taken back into the fold, then disinherited for becoming a communist atheist and marrying a jew, then worked hard to become a middle class-ish lab assistant, and is now senile in a charity run old people's home (I'm not 100% sure what happened in the middle there)
Another interesting link, this time w.r.t. race instead of class, is unpacking the white privilege knapsack, which afaict was an inspiration for this exercise.
tommmo and others. Copied Disclaimer: From "What Privileges Do You Have?", based on an exercise about class and privilege developed by Will Barratt, Meagan Cahill, Angie Carlen, Minnette Huck, Drew Lurker, Stacy Ploskonka at Illinois State University. If you participate in this blog game, they ask that you PLEASE acknowledge their copyright.
Actual link found via google (because I like to check these things :)): Take a Step Forward
Bold the true statements.
1. Father went to college It was free back then you know
2. Father finished college ...and then gave it up to backpack around europe instead :)
3. Mother went to college ...for about a week, and then crashed spectacularly
4. Mother finished college
5. Have any relative who is an attorney, physician, or professor. (I'm assuming a nurse doesn't count)
6. Were the same or higher class than your high school teachers. Hahaha. No.
7. Had more than 50 books in your childhood home. Can't complain there
8. Had more than 500 books in your childhood home.
9. Were read children's books by a parent. My mum is awesome at funny voices
10. Had lessons of any kind before you turned 18.
11. Had more than two kinds of lessons before you turned 18. Swimming and drama
12. The people in the media who dress and talk like me are portrayed positively. I guess
13. Had a credit card with your name on it before you turned 18.
14. Your parents (or a trust) paid for the majority of your college costs. (Ha. I did get financial assistance from the government due to my parents poverty but that doesn't count.)
15. Your parents (or a trust) paid for all of your college costs
16. Went to a private high school. On a scholarship, but I won't pretend it didn't help
17. Went to summer camp (Not that I recall)
18. Had a private tutor before you turned 18
19. Family vacations involved staying at hotels
20. Your clothing was all bought new before you turned 18. (hahaha. No. Admittedly some of it was very fancy hand-me-downs from my mum's friend who was married to an oil magnate in London and had kids slightly older than us)
21. Your parents bought you a car that was not a hand-me-down from them. (My parents car was a hand-me-down from their parents.)
22. There was original art in your house when you were a child By my parents!
23. You and your family lived in a single-family house Is this rare? I honestly can't think of anyone in my quite poor primary school for whom this wasn't true.
24. Your parent(s) owned their own house or apartment before you left home. (Homeswest all the way baby! They did inherit some money and buy their house a few years ago but I was well gone by then)
25. You had your own room as a child I was the oldest, though, and the next two were the same age and so suited sharing.
26. You had a phone in your room before you turned 18
27. Participated in a SAT/ACT prep course Where I met my first boyfriend :)
28. Had your own TV in your room in high school
29. Owned a mutual fund or IRA in high school or college. (Or, you know, ever. Who owns those in highschool?)
30. Flew anywhere on a commercial airline before you turned 16 On Compass, though. To Adelaide. So I'm not sure it counts :)
31. Went on a cruise with your family.
32. Went on more than one cruise with your family
33. Your parents took you to museums and art galleries as you grew up. Free but culturally stimulating, perfect for my parents :)
34. You were unaware of how much heating bills were for your family. On the other hand, we didn't own an airconditioner at all, which I think is more relevant to Australia.
So in summary: poor parents who tried incredibly hard (and quite successfully) to make up for the lack of money with a good education and lots of encouragement.
They missed things about stability/safety and not having things you needed bought for you which I found made a difference to my life (saving up your austudy so you can bail your parents out when they're about to get evicted=not buying all your textbooks) They also interestingly missed on anything remotely referring to gender, race etc, but I can see how that would be divisive.
Since it's interesting to look at generational change: I'd say my parents were more privileged than me growing, they're poor now entirely for internal, emotional reasons (partly simply not caring very much about money or success) My maternal granddad is a good example of my families varying fortunes from intelligence and hard work vs odd life choices/emotional problems and bad luck: he was born into money, then sent to an orphanage when his parents died, then taken back into the fold, then disinherited for becoming a communist atheist and marrying a jew, then worked hard to become a middle class-ish lab assistant, and is now senile in a charity run old people's home (I'm not 100% sure what happened in the middle there)
Another interesting link, this time w.r.t. race instead of class, is unpacking the white privilege knapsack, which afaict was an inspiration for this exercise.
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Are you SAD?
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What I miss is the trees :(
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There was a lovely tree in the backgarden of one of the houses behind us. But we cut it down and poisoned it after they knocked the house down to get rid of the parrots.
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Poor tree :(
Why not save money from textbooks purchasing?
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Re: Why not save money from textbooks purchasing?
Have a nice day :P
Re: Why not save money from textbooks purchasing?
I don't know how to prove that I am not spambot.
But I just want to share which my experience. Anyway, it's up to you to post of not.
Many Thanks.
Re: Why not save money from textbooks purchasing?
Still, it is pretty weird to go round posting what look like ads into the livejournals of complete strangers.
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Regardless, I refuse to count any superannuation I got from the $300 worth of work I did as an undergraduate as a "mutual fund" :P I don't think the legislation had been passed back then (1998) anyway.
I think the fact that ALL australian workers get superannuation makes this question rather counterproductive: I think not having to work during school/uni is a privilege (one I certainly appreciated)