Childhood Privilege Meme (snagged from ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
rainweaver13 and mellacita) - the bolded sentences below are the ones that were true about me (also, I removed a few that didn't apply simply because I didn't grow up in the United States).
Father went to college.
Father finished college.
Mother went to college.
Mother finished college.
Have any relative who is an attorney, physician, or professor. (No; of all our relatives, my parents were probably the most educated.)
Were the same or higher class than your high school teachers. (Not sure I understand this one. Was I higher class than my high school teachers? In what way?)
Had more than 50 books in your childhood home.
Had more than 500 books in your childhood home. (Maybe... I'm not sure. If not, that's only because there wasn't enough room.:D)
Were read children's books by a parent.
Had lessons of any kind before you turned 18. I took private English lessons while in high school, which made it possible for me to pass the entrance exams for the English studies at university - because my high school English teacher clearly knew less than I did at that point.;P
Had more than two kinds of lessons before you turned 18.
The people in the media who dress and talk like me are portrayed positively. I think so... lol.
Had a credit card with your name on it before you turned 18. (I don't think I'd heard of credit cards before I turned 18.;)
Your parents (or a trust) paid for the majority of your college costs (costs after scholarships). (Nope. Education was free in my country. If it wasn't, probably neither my parents nor me would have gotten any.:P)
Went to a private high school.
Had a private tutor before you turned 18.
Family vacations involved staying at hotels. Very cheap ones, more like hostels, I guess... but yeah, sort of.
Your clothing was all bought new before you turned 18. (Nooope. I lived in a world of used clothes, hand-me-downs and my mother's own inventive creations.;)
Your parents bought you a car that was not a hand-me-down from them. (Well... certainly not when I was a kid. They bought me one here, four years ago... and it wasn't a hand-me-down from them, but it was used anyway.)
There was original art in your house when you were a child. Yes. My father's paintings.:)
You and your family lived in a single-family house. (Nooo... we lived in a one-bedroom or studio of sorts until I was seven - the four of us, including my grandmother - and then we moved to a two-bedroom, with each of the bedrooms about the size of two large office cubicles.:|)
Your parent(s) owned their own house or apartment before you left home. Yeah. It was a rathole, but they owned it.:)
You had your own room as a child. Well... for about two years, I guess. After we moved to the bigger apartment and before my sister came along.:) But even during the time when I sort of had my own room, my grandma slept in it. She spent most of the day in the kitchen, though, or in front of the TV, so I guess I could be alone in that room... SOMETIMES.:|
You had a phone in your room before you turned 18.
Had your own TV in your room in High School. (No. And I still don't. Because I don't want it.:P)
Flew anywhere on a commercial airline before you turned 16.
Went on a cruise with your family. (Buahahaaa, no. Not until now, btw.)
Went on more than one cruise with your family. (See above.)
Your parents took you to museums and art galleries as you grew up.
You were unaware of how much heating bills were for your family. As a kid, I lived pretty much in my own world and wasn't much aware of the financial aspects of life - but I knew it was a BAD THING when I spent too much time running hot water in the bath (especially since we had one bathroom for the five of us, from the time I was nine - which is when my sister was born - until my grandma died when I was 18).
Btw, we weren't considered poor back in the old country. We were middle class, I guess. Which might give the Americans on my flist some idea of what 'lower class' Eastern European living was like.:D To paraphrase a quote from one of my favorite movies: "That's why we left. To find a better life.":P
But speaking of movies... I watched Perfume last night. ( You know, the one based on the famous novel by Patrick Suskind. )
rainweaver13 and mellacita) - the bolded sentences below are the ones that were true about me (also, I removed a few that didn't apply simply because I didn't grow up in the United States). Father went to college.
Father finished college.
Mother went to college.
Mother finished college.
Have any relative who is an attorney, physician, or professor. (No; of all our relatives, my parents were probably the most educated.)
Were the same or higher class than your high school teachers. (Not sure I understand this one. Was I higher class than my high school teachers? In what way?)
Had more than 50 books in your childhood home.
Had more than 500 books in your childhood home. (Maybe... I'm not sure. If not, that's only because there wasn't enough room.:D)
Were read children's books by a parent.
Had lessons of any kind before you turned 18. I took private English lessons while in high school, which made it possible for me to pass the entrance exams for the English studies at university - because my high school English teacher clearly knew less than I did at that point.;P
Had more than two kinds of lessons before you turned 18.
The people in the media who dress and talk like me are portrayed positively. I think so... lol.
Had a credit card with your name on it before you turned 18. (I don't think I'd heard of credit cards before I turned 18.;)
Your parents (or a trust) paid for the majority of your college costs (costs after scholarships). (Nope. Education was free in my country. If it wasn't, probably neither my parents nor me would have gotten any.:P)
Went to a private high school.
Had a private tutor before you turned 18.
Family vacations involved staying at hotels. Very cheap ones, more like hostels, I guess... but yeah, sort of.
Your clothing was all bought new before you turned 18. (Nooope. I lived in a world of used clothes, hand-me-downs and my mother's own inventive creations.;)
Your parents bought you a car that was not a hand-me-down from them. (Well... certainly not when I was a kid. They bought me one here, four years ago... and it wasn't a hand-me-down from them, but it was used anyway.)
There was original art in your house when you were a child. Yes. My father's paintings.:)
You and your family lived in a single-family house. (Nooo... we lived in a one-bedroom or studio of sorts until I was seven - the four of us, including my grandmother - and then we moved to a two-bedroom, with each of the bedrooms about the size of two large office cubicles.:|)
Your parent(s) owned their own house or apartment before you left home. Yeah. It was a rathole, but they owned it.:)
You had your own room as a child. Well... for about two years, I guess. After we moved to the bigger apartment and before my sister came along.:) But even during the time when I sort of had my own room, my grandma slept in it. She spent most of the day in the kitchen, though, or in front of the TV, so I guess I could be alone in that room... SOMETIMES.:|
You had a phone in your room before you turned 18.
Had your own TV in your room in High School. (No. And I still don't. Because I don't want it.:P)
Flew anywhere on a commercial airline before you turned 16.
Went on a cruise with your family. (Buahahaaa, no. Not until now, btw.)
Went on more than one cruise with your family. (See above.)
Your parents took you to museums and art galleries as you grew up.
You were unaware of how much heating bills were for your family. As a kid, I lived pretty much in my own world and wasn't much aware of the financial aspects of life - but I knew it was a BAD THING when I spent too much time running hot water in the bath (especially since we had one bathroom for the five of us, from the time I was nine - which is when my sister was born - until my grandma died when I was 18).
Btw, we weren't considered poor back in the old country. We were middle class, I guess. Which might give the Americans on my flist some idea of what 'lower class' Eastern European living was like.:D To paraphrase a quote from one of my favorite movies: "That's why we left. To find a better life.":P
But speaking of movies... I watched Perfume last night. ( You know, the one based on the famous novel by Patrick Suskind. )
