This is only my own personal experience but my parents became middle class when I was a teenager and I started going to private school and having my material needs much more easily provided. During college (UK college, so US high school equivalent) almost all the mates I made were working class and I became much more aware of the struggles people faced. University onwards this only deepened and I was well into anarchism by the time I hit 20. Realising I was being financially abused by my parents, distancing myself from them and living most of my adult years as a working class person for the most part and also being homeless a lot of the time of course really helped to open my eyes. Before I started getting that true awareness I wasn’t prejudiced or judgemental toward working class people, but as I say I just lacked that real awareness of how society is structured to keep people struggling and marginalised in various ways. If I’d stayed in that middle class bubble I feel I could well have been just like these young middle class people who seem to think people are on an even playing field, for the most part
This is only my own personal experience but my parents became middle class when I was a teenager and I started going to private school and having my material needs much more easily provided. During college (UK college, so US high school equivalent) almost all the mates I made were working class and I became much more aware of the struggles people faced. University onwards this only deepened and I was well into anarchism by the time I hit 20. Realising I was being financially abused by my parents, distancing myself from them and living most of my adult years as a working class person for the most part and also being homeless a lot of the time of course really helped to open my eyes. Before I started getting that true awareness I wasn’t prejudiced or judgemental toward working class people, but as I say I just lacked that real awareness of how society is structured to keep people struggling and marginalised in various ways. If I’d stayed in that middle class bubble I feel I could well have been just like these young middle class people who seem to think people are on an even playing field, for the most part