I will attest that I’m a white person raising white kids in the core and that my child, through no signaling of mine, has it in their head that we ought to own nice cars, own designer clothes, and go on several vacations a year. I know some of this is just children wanting to do fun stuff and have cool things, but the specifics of what things are absolutely reek of white nostalgia for the 50’s and a general romanticization of bourgeois culture.

I swear I’m not trying to drag my kid for not being sufficiently proletarian. Just pointing out that through media consumption and talking to their peers they’ve seeped up the same propaganda as everyone else, no matter how much I’ve made sure my parenting doesn’t reflect or encourage that