Living in the Ghetto

[Mister Agenda]

I come from a low socioeconomic status background, and I often find it easier to relate to my acquaintances of similar original status than my acquaintances with a more privileged experience, regardless of race. The opposite is also sometimes true, we moved many times when I was a child, and I spent a lot of time reading the sets of encyclopedias we lugged around. That experience rendered me atypical compared to most people who have lived in a family of seven in a 1 1/2 bedroom trailer on a farm without electricity or running water (it wasn't always so extreme, of course, and we did eventually get those amenities, and attached another trailer to our trailer). To an extent, I am comfortable in both worlds, and to an extent I'm odd in both. I'm not inclined to complain about not fitting in, I'm fortunate to have good friends across the socioeconomic and racial spectrum.