I'd expect there to be a noticeable class change going from New Jersey to Connecticut also.
I don't think there was as much as you'd expect. The neighborhood in New Jersey was a newly-built development for upwardly-mobile young families.
In Connecticut, my neighborhood was a transition zone between a more working-class suburb and an upper-middle class one. While the distribution curve was wider the nose of the curve was pretty much in the same place.
The real difference was ethnicity. My neighborhood in New Jersey was ethnically mixed: much more Jewish, black, and Asian. The one in Connecticut wasn't just white, it was solidly Catholic and heavily Italian with a plurality of the rest Irish. My school was so solidly Catholic that the day all the Catholic kids went for some event--it may have been confirmation, I'm not sure--I was left in my 6th grade class alone with one other kid and the teacher. I remember the other kid turning to me in some surprise and saying, "You're not Catholic either?"
Or maybe I mean, how does that work for kids who are adopted very young, so they have a genetic heritage that is unconnected to their social heritage?
I think you're making unwarranted assumptions in this case. I'm told that they went back to visit foster families that they were old enough when they left to remember. Key point was that they were not, however, old enough to have retained enough language to converse with.
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Date: 2014-12-04 06:31 pm (UTC)I don't think there was as much as you'd expect. The neighborhood in New Jersey was a newly-built development for upwardly-mobile young families.
In Connecticut, my neighborhood was a transition zone between a more working-class suburb and an upper-middle class one. While the distribution curve was wider the nose of the curve was pretty much in the same place.
The real difference was ethnicity. My neighborhood in New Jersey was ethnically mixed: much more Jewish, black, and Asian. The one in Connecticut wasn't just white, it was solidly Catholic and heavily Italian with a plurality of the rest Irish. My school was so solidly Catholic that the day all the Catholic kids went for some event--it may have been confirmation, I'm not sure--I was left in my 6th grade class alone with one other kid and the teacher. I remember the other kid turning to me in some surprise and saying, "You're not Catholic either?"
Or maybe I mean, how does that work for kids who are adopted very young, so they have a genetic heritage that is unconnected to their social heritage?
I think you're making unwarranted assumptions in this case. I'm told that they went back to visit foster families that they were old enough when they left to remember. Key point was that they were not, however, old enough to have retained enough language to converse with.