“Classes communicate differently and our social skills aren't the same. Working-class people aren't big on formal introductions and small talk. We use much more body language and humility. Among us, we share a lot of local history and experience, so there's much we don't have to say to each other. We tend to mumble and say 'you know' a lot. We aren't usually talking heads. Self-deprecation is often our way of exercising a work-group, working toward cooperation and trust. It's a very tribal thing. And home.
Home is
not a street number, not a building.
Home is
another word for community, for the tribe ... faces, hands, voices, mumbles and shared work.” - Carolyn Chute
"So do you have men in other rooms studyin' about theirselves?"
“Classes communicate differently and our social skills aren't the same. Working-class people aren't big on formal introductions and small talk. We use much more body language and humility. Among us, we share a lot of local history and experience, so there's much we don't have to say to each other. We tend to mumble and say 'you know' a lot. We aren't usually talking heads. Self-deprecation is often our way of exercising a work-group, working toward cooperation and trust. It's a very tribal thing. And home. Home is not a street number, not a building. Home is another word for community, for the tribe ... faces, hands, voices, mumbles and shared work.” - Carolyn Chute
Reading Carolyn Chute. Finally, someone willing to talk about class. And I like that her husband's backyard target practice "keeps away the same old tired bohemian intelligentsia types."
