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Post copied from a medical post. May make point better than I of socioeconomic diversity:
ometimes, it’s refreshing to hang out with “real” people who have real problems instead of the former Ivy Leaguers from upper middle class neighborhoods that I’m used to. And, despite all the borderline suicidal threads whining about, gasp, a B- in a class, we have lived relatively cushy lives compared with 90% of the general population. It does take some luck and fortune to get to where we are. And, for the sake of our future careers as physicians, it’s useful to be able to identify with those who come from different backgrounds. One of the main sources of conflict b/w my gf and I is the fact we have had drastically different experiences and thus it’s hard sometimes for us to appreciate the perspective of the other.</p>