Inherently, we are taught and in many ways, shaped by our parents to be classist. Course this isn’t true for everyone, but lemme get down on this before you start rolling your eyes. The fact that our parents brought us to the U.S. for a “better life” laid the foundation for folks, whether they know it or not. I mean think about it, really think about it. Using myself as an example, my parents are borderline literate.
They’ve been in the US for more than 22 years now, and they haven’t learned English in any shape or form outside of short conversational words. There’s numerous factors thrown in the hat for that, but at the end of the day, my parents, like many others, were putting in time hustling to make a living and feed their kids. Education wasn’t a luxury they had neither in their home country nor in the U.S.
