John Lawrence

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Clear boundaries exist between parents and children, with prompt obedience expected: crucial training for working-class jobs.122 Class migrants often note with shock the disrespectful way professional elite children talk of and to their parents. Noted bell hooks, whose father worked for 30 years as a janitor, “we were taught to value our parents and their care, to understand that they were not obligated to give us care.”123
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