I don’t know what you mean by “advantaged people like me” means. I’m not trying to be funny but rather, speaking for myself, I get defensive when someone tells me I am advantaged. My grandparents and parents like many were refugees who came to this country and without a safety net, not speaking English and worked very hard, invested, sac…
I don’t know what you mean by “advantaged people like me” means. I’m not trying to be funny but rather, speaking for myself, I get defensive when someone tells me I am advantaged. My grandparents and parents like many were refugees who came to this country and without a safety net, not speaking English and worked very hard, invested, sacrificed immediate gratification for longer term investment and believed in education as the path from poverty to success. So when someone says I am advantaged I feel they are belittle the sacrifice and investment and my forfeiting near term pleasure for the long term. “Want” vs. “need”.
I don’t know what you mean by “advantaged people like me” means. I’m not trying to be funny but rather, speaking for myself, I get defensive when someone tells me I am advantaged. My grandparents and parents like many were refugees who came to this country and without a safety net, not speaking English and worked very hard, invested, sacrificed immediate gratification for longer term investment and believed in education as the path from poverty to success. So when someone says I am advantaged I feel they are belittle the sacrifice and investment and my forfeiting near term pleasure for the long term. “Want” vs. “need”.