My parents were working class immigrant factory workers, so we didn't have much money growing up, still there were some privileges we did have...

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.

1. Father went to college
2. Father finished college
3. Mother went to college
4. Mother finished college
5. Have any relative who is an attorney, physician, or professor
6. Were the same or higher class than your high school teachers
7. Had more than 50 books in your childhood home
8. Had more than 500 books in your childhood home
9. Were read children's books by a parent
10. Had lessons of any kind before you turned 18 - nope..dancing school and hebrew school. Neither were negotiable
11. Had more than two kinds of lessons before you turned 18
12. The people in the media who dress and talk like me are portrayed positively - The only role models were Fiddler on the Roof and Molly Goldberg until Barbra Streisand did THE WAY We WERE...
13. Had a credit card with your name on it before you turned 18 - It was on my dad's account, but it was in my name for emergency only
14. Your parents (or a trust) paid for the majority of your college costs - Nope! My father switched jobs right before college so i paid for it all myself thru loans and scholarships
15. Your parents (or a trust) paid for all of your college costs
16. Went to a private high school
17. Went to summer camp
18. Had a private tutor before you turned 18
19. Family vacations involved staying at hotels - But they also involved going in groups via buses and having guides talk in Chinese.
20. Your clothing was all bought new before you turned 18
21. Your parents bought you a car that was not a hand-me-down from them - 1966 Comet station wagon
22. There was original art in your house when you were a child
23. You and your family lived in a single family house
24. Your parent(s) owned their own house or apartment before you left home- i grew up in a two family house that my father lived in since he was 3. it
25. You had your own room as a child. - 1 bedroom apartment until I was 12, then moved after that to share a bedroom with my 2 siblings.
26. You had a phone in your room before you turned 18 - There were 3 phones in the home, but we only had one line for the entire apartment.
27. Participated in an SAT/ACT prep course
28. Had your own TV in your room in High School -
29. Owned a mutual fund or IRA in High School or College
30. Flew anywhere on a commercial airline before you turned 16
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. - my parents took us to the circus
34. You were unaware of how much heating bills were for your family. -
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