Privilege meme

[halloweenjack]

Caught it from x_creepy_doll_x
Bold the ones that are true for you.

The list is based on an exercise developed by Will Barratt, Meagan Cahill, Angie Carlen, Minnette Huck, Drew Lurker, Stacy Ploskonka at Illinois State University. The exercise developers ask that if you participate in this blog game, you acknowledge their copyright.

If you post this in your blog, please leave a comment on this post. To participate in this blog game, copy and paste the above list into your blog, and bold the items that are true for you. If you don't have a blog, feel free to post your responses in the comments.

Father went to college
Father finished college
Mother went to college
Mother finished college
Have any relative who is an attorney, physician, or professor- several; many of them first attorney/physician/professor in the family
Were the same or higher class than your high school teachers
Had more than 50 books in your childhood home
Had more than 500 books in your childhood home
Were read children's books by a parent
Had lessons of any kind before you turned 18 - music
Had more than two kinds of lessons before you turned 18
The people in the media who dress and talk like me are portrayed positively - yeah, nerds finally are; not when I was growing up, though
Had a credit card with your name on it before you turned 18
Your parents (or a trust) paid for the majority of your college costs - it's sort of a toss-up; I inherited a very small trust fund that paid for about 2 1/2 years of undergrad (this was before state university tuition started to skyrocket); paid for the rest with financial aid and working as a resident assistant, and paid for grad school with a tuition waiver from working as a library clerk
Your parents (or a trust) paid for all of your college costs
Went to a private high school
Went to summer camp - Boy Scouts
Had a private tutor before you turned 18
Family vacations involved staying at hotels motels
Your clothing was all bought new before you turned 18
Your parents bought you a car that was not a hand-me-down from them
There was original art in your house when you were a child
Had a phone in your room before you turned 18
You and your family lived in a single family house - for most of my childhood (lived in a duplex that my family owned as a teenager)
Your parent(s) owned their own house or apartment before you left home
You had your own room as a child - as a teenager
Participated in an SAT/ACT prep course
Had your own TV in your room in High School
Owned a mutual fund or IRA in High School or College - for a brief time; burned through it for tuition
Flew anywhere on a commercial airline before you turned 16 - interesting; why 16?
Went on a cruise with your family
Went on more than one cruise with your family
Your parents took you to museums and art galleries as you grew up
You were unaware of how much heating bills were for your family

I find some of the assumptions in this quiz/meme pretty interesting, such as that there's one kind of summer camp (Boy Scout camp was for one week, and pretty cheap, unlike the sort that's usually portrayed in films where the kids are parked in camp all summer while the parents go off and play), ditto for hotels/motels. Like d_p_rackham, I realize that I was quite fortunate compared to a lot of people, but my own situation is maybe a little more, um, baroque than most people's. (I didn't live with the same family the entire time that I was growing up.)