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Old 03-12-2013, 03:11 PM
 
Location: Pittsburgh
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In other words, your bubble is so thick you may not even know you're in one.
This also brings up the question of why is it elitist to not drink Bud Light or drive a truck? Isn't being proud of never having had Thai food or watching a movie with subtitles elitist and limiting in its own way?
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Old 03-12-2013, 06:12 PM
 
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I grew up in a bubble, that's for sure. I didn't have a bagel until I was 20 years old. I didn't even know they existed. My college roommate was shocked.
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Old 03-12-2013, 06:51 PM
 
Location: North by Northwest
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I grew up in a bubble, that's for sure. I didn't have a bagel until I was 20 years old. I didn't even know they existed. My college roommate was shocked.
TBF, most people outside areas with a "critical mass" of Jews didn't know what bagels were before the '80s.
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Old 03-12-2013, 07:03 PM
 
Location: Mid-Atlantic
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I grew up in a bubble, that's for sure. I didn't have a bagel until I was 20 years old. I didn't even know they existed. My college roommate was shocked.
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TBF, most people outside areas with a "critical mass" of Jews didn't know what bagels were before the '80s.

Oy vey, I could not agree more.
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Old 03-12-2013, 07:19 PM
 
Location: Pittsburgh area
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I grew up in a bubble, that's for sure. I didn't have a bagel until I was 20 years old. I didn't even know they existed. My college roommate was shocked.
I grew up with the blandest food around and didn't really know ethnic food until I moved here (despite being in Philly for 10 months). Which means of course for a while I only got some pretty lame versions of that too.

I knew what a bagel was though because by then you could get Lender's frozen (80s). But I never had a GOOD bagel until much later.
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Old 03-12-2013, 08:08 PM
 
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This also brings up the question of why is it elitist to not drink Bud Light or drive a truck? Isn't being proud of never having had Thai food or watching a movie with subtitles elitist and limiting in its own way?
That's exactly right.

I lived overseas for a while (ooo! elitist!) and when I got back from not having paid attention to American pop culture for 5 years I noticed a trend of defensiveness about stereotypical middle America. There's nothing wrong with being proud of who you are, where you came from, and what you have. We could all do with being a little more thankful for what we are and what brought us here. But for some reason it's become normal to be proud of . . . being plain, being average, being unchallenged. Self-confidence is born out of accomplishing things, of making the best of things, of doing things . . . not about fulfilling every stereotype they preach on Y108 or living in the same, well, bubble as you did when you were 18. There's more to life than eating the same appetizers at TGIFridays, drinking the same beer they advertise on every channel, and watching the same scripted reality TV. Maybe those in the "bubble" are the ones who don't move beyond that. And if you take a look at how the US is doing these days, and how it compares to the rest of the world in education or in innovation or in other social factors, if anyone needs to move out of a bubble it's those who are happy being stagnant.
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Old 03-12-2013, 08:16 PM
 
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My first thought upon seeing those survey questions was that the author clearly believes everyone in America falls neatly into two categories: 1) white yuppies, and 2) white rednecks.

My second thought was "this guy must be from Pittsburgh!"
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Old 03-12-2013, 08:22 PM
 
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you scored between 9 and 12.


Just took it again, same score. So happy to say I never watched an Oprah show.
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Old 03-12-2013, 08:51 PM
 
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My second thought was "this guy must be from Pittsburgh!"
Shame on YOU!
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Old 03-13-2013, 10:16 AM
 
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Shame on YOU!
I know, it was a snarky sarcastic comment, but one of my pet peeves about the Burgh is the large number of lifelong residents here who have little experience outside of Western PA and littel experience with the many cultures/races in the rest of the country that don't fit into the "middle America" mold.
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