I completely understand what you mean about the reprehensible behavior!

I'm half Korean half Caucasian. I dealt with people like this growing up. My parents divorced so I moved a lot. When I was living mainland U.S. (Washington state), I was called a "gook" and a "chink". When I moved to Hawaii to live with my mom, I was called "haole (white) shit" by ironically enough, Koreans. …

Seriously. We give our Dachshund tons of love and affection, but he's made it clear he would cut us if he could just to get to our dinner. And god forbid we try to open a package of human snack—he is convinced anything that comes in a plastic pouch is for dogs ONLY, and will freak the fuck out. Oh! And he quite…

I completely agree.

I'm recently divorced and living alone for the first time ever. It's AMAZING. My ex husband was super critical and I am experiencing freedom like I've never known.

Always waxing my 'stache while watching Seinfeld.

This is the most Wisconsin looking baby I've ever seen. And yet, where is her cheesehead veil? I thought they were de rigueur at all Wisconsin weddings.

My best friend has completely different themes and colors for her house. One room is steampunk with browns; her dining room is red/black/white, etc. There's no continuity, and she has stuff EVERYWHERE. So many knick-knacks! But she grew up super poor, and god help her, it shows.

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I'm sure De Tocqueville would be thrilled to know he's been "reduced" to a meme by me.

I used to work for a very exclusive nanny agency and the only places I've seen soap come out of the sink is in public bathrooms.

Thank you for this. Child of an inter-class marriage in an inter-class marriage here. My dad was blue collar, and my mom had a Master's, and while they both adhered to a pretty frugally middle class lifestyle, there were definitely tensions. My grandmother cried when they announced their engagement, and my dad never…

i have to agree with this as much as i can understand it. my mother came from a working/lower-middle-class family, while my father was strictly blue-collar working class, and they've both managed to work our family up to middle/upper-middle class. my father's side, most of whom are still working-class, have a lot of…

I related to this part of the article wayyyy too much. I put a lot of energy into my home.

I got my first brand new car last year, it was really weird and not as AMAZING as I thought it would be, but I love it. My husband was like, "This is going to be the greatest thing EVER for you!" and in the end I was sort of like, "Blah." Not that it won't be amazing for you, I was just really surprised at how it…

I have had a similar experience with moving from the Midwest to California. I do generally prefer the way Californians eat; I'm not a fan of the smother-everything-with-cheese-and-gravy style of the Midwest. But it still feels like people judge me for cracking open a can of Coke or a package of Oreos now and then. …

In addition, it's weird to be a person who is cross-class. I say this as someone who was low-middle class for the first 6-8 years of my life, and then became middle class after my dad got a new job, and then upper-middle class when we moved to a place with lower housing costs, and better schools. In my experience it's…

Tracy, your article has forced me to acknowledge that class is actually a big deal in my relationship.

Oh my gosh, the taste (like, actually taste in your mouth) thing is insanely accurate. My fiance and I don't have a class difference so much as a...location (?) difference (he grew up in a teeny tiny village in England, I grew up in Southern Louisiana in mid-sized towns and New Orleans). But he eats almost…

I was kidnapped many years ago, not in Mexico, but as a college student traveling abroad. It ruined my life, and I don think I'll ever recover fully or really trust people again, but don't think I don't know how lucky I am that it wasn't worse. Anything that prevents people from going through that or potentially from…