The people I know who weren’t brought up to go to college have more experience navigating concrete threats and dangers, which can’t be avoided through conformity, since the system isn’t set up to take care of people like them. They have to know what’s going on to survive. This results in an orientation less sensitive to subtle threats of invalidation, and that sees more concrete value in being informed by someone.
In general this means that they’re much more comfortable with the kind of confrontation Vassar engages in, than high-class people are.
This makes a lot of sense. I can notice ways in which I generally feels more threatened by social invalidation than actual concrete threats of violence.
The people I know who weren’t brought up to go to college have more experience navigating concrete threats and dangers, which can’t be avoided through conformity, since the system isn’t set up to take care of people like them. They have to know what’s going on to survive. This results in an orientation less sensitive to subtle threats of invalidation, and that sees more concrete value in being informed by someone.
In general this means that they’re much more comfortable with the kind of confrontation Vassar engages in, than high-class people are.
This makes a lot of sense. I can notice ways in which I generally feels more threatened by social invalidation than actual concrete threats of violence.