glowing-fish posted:

Well, I can't claim to have visited every single area of the United States. I am fairly well-travelled within the United States, but if you want to bring up examples from places I haven't been, or situations I haven't been in, I am sure you can find some.

I can talk about some things with some authority, especially with education. For middle-class (a term that people prefer to "bourgeois" for some reason) students, like those I grew up with, the idea of filling out FAFSAs, doing college applications, and going through the entire college admission process was transparent: they took it for granted that these institutions would deal with them in a "natural" manner. I've also worked with first-generation college students who needed to have "obvious" things explained to them. They were often quite afraid of anything to do with college or higher education, because they didn't have the background knowledge to navigate through these institutions, and they didn't feel that what they were doing was "natural" or "obvious", the way students from bourgeois backgrounds did.