I guess I'm confused about the point of the question if there's no way to actually know how any given person interpreted it, so the answers are kinda meaningless.
Despite my peeve about the use of the phrase, I don't think it's actually indicative of wanting to shed the past. I think it's just widely-accepted language abuse.
The answers aren't meaningless - they just need to be correlated to figure out whether or not they support my hypothesis. Someday I may even get around to putting this into SPSS and finding out.
As for shedding the past, I'm not making any claims about you. I'm saying that I have observed people going out of their way to change cell phones when they didn't need to and when it cost them money to break a contract - it struck me as a need to identify as being from somewhere other than where they grew up.
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Date: 2009-09-16 01:49 am (UTC)Despite my peeve about the use of the phrase, I don't think it's actually indicative of wanting to shed the past. I think it's just widely-accepted language abuse.
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Date: 2009-09-16 05:26 am (UTC)As for shedding the past, I'm not making any claims about you. I'm saying that I have observed people going out of their way to change cell phones when they didn't need to and when it cost them money to break a contract - it struck me as a need to identify as being from somewhere other than where they grew up.