well yeah, I know. my cousins live near an airport, though. they have no education, narrowly missed dropping out of high school, went into the military, my cousin's wife had a child out of wedlock that she gave up for adoption...
My mom and uncle are solidly middle-class, though, as am I in many ways. I'm just saying I think that our family's an interesting mix of shifting social classes. Then of course there's my dad's family... they were big names in Pekacangan, their little village, but in Jakarta, my dad and his brother were "kampung people" - basically, village trash (like the Thaksin supporters in the article you posted earlier), in comparison to my dad's aristocratic Jakartan friends. Which resulted in crazy awkwardness that I wasn't aware of until this summer, watching my uncle squirm when he was around my dad's friends. And there it ties in really explicitly with ethnicity and skin color and how Chinese you look.
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Date: 2008-11-29 02:09 am (UTC)My mom and uncle are solidly middle-class, though, as am I in many ways. I'm just saying I think that our family's an interesting mix of shifting social classes. Then of course there's my dad's family... they were big names in Pekacangan, their little village, but in Jakarta, my dad and his brother were "kampung people" - basically, village trash (like the Thaksin supporters in the article you posted earlier), in comparison to my dad's aristocratic Jakartan friends. Which resulted in crazy awkwardness that I wasn't aware of until this summer, watching my uncle squirm when he was around my dad's friends. And there it ties in really explicitly with ethnicity and skin color and how Chinese you look.