>Do you live in a bubble?
>There exists a new upper class that’s completely disconnected from the average American and American culture at large, argues Charles Murray, a libertarian political scientist and author.
>Take this 25-question quiz, based on a similar one published in Murray’s 2012 book, “Coming Apart: The State of White America 1960-2010,” to find out just how thick your bubble is.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/making-sense/do-you-live-in-a-bubble-a-quiz-2/
>>69191026
Why specifically whites? Why not the super wealthy if they want to show some legit disconnects with the rest of us?
TRUMP 2016 MAGA
>>69191026
Oh boy, another anti-white divide-and-conquer article. Yawn.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUeD1_jZJkk
>>69191524
Shitting on white people is "in" according to east coast liberals.
>>69191605
I scored 19...
>>69191026
>Carpal tunnel doesn't count.
oh lordy pbs doesn't realize that shit is degenerative and your hands are fucked for life once you get it.
>>69191605
I got 52, I don't watch TV or movies which is probably why. Everything on the list was California cuck shit.
>>69193979
Fuck off nigger, if you got carpal tunnel you're working a pansy ass job.
Try having your bones at your hips and knees grinding on each other after burning through the cartilage from having to work a real job and making shit money.
tfw you remember when the news hour was good
rip jim lehrer
31 points.
Though I think it should be fair to say that my not-watching TV and the like ought to be factored in too.
See, they connect habits with socioeconomic status...like socioeconomic groups are monoliths.
27 points
Makes sense considering how much privilege I have.
>>69194593
b-b-but only the wealthy can afford to not watch TV, it's not like I read books cause I can't afford cable or a TV.
>>69194347
Sounds like you mad from having shit genetics.
Weird that watching TV shows/movies plays such a massive part
>>69191026
Read it a couple of years ago, it's a really really good read and goes by quickly
Highly recommend it.
>>69191026
"Coming Apart..." is a flaming piece of shit, what a crappy read.
>the middle class has been shrinking ever since bankers wrecked Wall Street and Obama hasn't done a fucking thing to fix it (those fat boomer kikes Dodd and Frank just climbed under the desk and sucked bankster cock instead of actually do anything about it)
>"YOU'RE RICHER THAN EVER BEFORE, GOY! GIB SHEKELS"
>>69192999
Also the west coast ones
>>69194347
>the location of your pain is more important than the existence of the pain
Wow what a one-upper faggot. You know people who have to live with serious pain hate faggots like you, right? "wahhhhh I didn't take care of my body and now I'm owwy" Bitch try getting run off the road by a drunk driver, breaking all your limbs, lacerating your liver and spleen, knocking almost every single disc in your spine out of alignment, a calcifying leg, a missing quad, hernias, and all your guts being loose in your body because the doctors had to rip that shit out and stuff it back in. Pain is pain is pain is pain. Don't act like your pain is worse than someone else' because there's always someone way more fucked up than you are, and everyone's just trying to deal with it.
What did you even do to earn that pain? Shovel shit like a hick? Yeah, that's worth bragging about. You're a literal shitlord, yippee for you.
404 SHUT IT DOWN
>>69195745
>wow look at this shitlord that got injured from years of work.
>Yeah well what if a meteor hit us all right now, that defeats your argument wew :^)
>What did you even do shovel shit, wow why cant you be born rich like me with boomer parents that "invested" in housing and paid everything for me.
What did you score, a 3?
Man you americans are weird as fuck. The questions asked some obscure shit I never in my life ever heard.
37
A second-generation (or more) upper-middle-class person who has made a point of getting out a lot.
>implying I go around asking whether people have degrees
>"gentrifying" a neighborhood with my degree
>with regard to your neighborhood, not your ZIP code
>... percent of Americans lived in ZIP codes in which
and this is the first fucking question
>>69196193
this is some high level brainwashing, don't associate us with it
bonus
>I was prompted to use this question because of a personal experience.
>>69196193
I hope that is an ironic comment because Puerto Ricans are American.
>>69191026
>our tax dollars fund this
>>69194228
>Branson
>football
>pickups
>he thinks this is """California cuck shit"""
Yup, you live in a bubble
>>69194347
>if you got carpal tunnel you're working a pansy ass job
>Implying trade jobs are pansy
Weren't the wealthy always disconnected?
>>69197417
wew, nice selective choices.
I quite obviously meant the Netflix shit and the movies. The only one on there I had watched was james bond.
>>69191026
PBS is literally the only channel i watch. Im moderately butt hurt over this.
>>69191026
>http://www.pbs.org/newshour/making-sense/do-you-live-in-a-bubble-a-quiz-2
College educated white man here, I stopped this survey when it asked if I knew someone who was an Evangelical Christian, My PHD world recognized scientist father (in his modest field) was an evangelical Christian for at least a short period. This survey is clearly full of shit. If you have a certain religion you're uneducated? Not finishing this bullshit survey.
got a 23. I thought I would have a even more insulated score.
>>69198128
I lost faith in public news when in 2004 or 2006? They told me there was a promising new senator from Illinois named Barack! Most odd piece I had ever heard on public radio... they are in on it. Public as in SOCIALIST TREASON
>>69191026
You mean the upper middle class white liberal bubble that constantly wants to import more refugees and immigrants while the lower classes are the ones suffering from it?
>>69191026
>In the April 2007 issue of Commentary Magazine, Murray wrote on the disproportionate representation of Jews in the ranks of outstanding achievers and says that one of the reasons is that Jews "have been found to have an unusually high mean intelligence as measured by IQ tests since the first Jewish samples were tested." His article concludes with the assertion: "At this point, I take sanctuary in my remaining hypothesis, uniquely parsimonious and happily irrefutable. The Jews are God's chosen people."[35]
>>69191026
Charles Murray is based he wrote the bell curve
So am I a plebcuck or no?
>Have you ever lived for at least a year in an American neighborhood in which the majority of your 50 nearest neighbors did not have college degrees?
freshman dorm
checkmate
>>69198427
Well I never really paid attention to their news sections. I kinda had a feeling they had a liberal bias, but was never able to confirm it. I watch Nature, Nova, Jacque Pepin, and This Old House.
>>69198825
that's pretty pleb. patrician tier is low single digits, stop watching tv and movies and read more literature.
Rich liberals think all whites are also rich liberals
>>69192999
It's gonna be in for the next 200 years.
I got 20 and am not upper class or white. Kek.
>>69191524
No Murrey is attacking coastal elites for being out of touch.
He is the guy who wrote 'The Bell Curve' about intelligence…it was very controversial for stating Blacks had lower IQ's
>>69194228
Can honestly say I've been in CA all my life, I scored a 77.
>>69199475
would be friends with. i got 18. would have been lower but unfortunately i've watched a lot of movies recently.
>Do you know who Jimmie Johnson is?
what is this trying to say
>>69199700
You know what I mean when I say California, and what everyone thinks when you say California.
>>69191026
>PBS WANTS YOU TO CHECK YOUR PRIVILIGE
>PRIVILIGE
Nice try nigger, you should have stayed in the school.
Did no one actually do this and watch the video, or are you all literally retarded? The guy whose book this comes from is defending working and middle class white America and claiming that anti-Trump sentiment in part comes from massive ignorance of the upper middle and upper classes, and their isolation from mainstream American culture.
>>69191026
Scored 54 im a real working class white man
>>69198549
This is literally one of the points the author is making
reading comprehension
26.
But some questions aren't perfect.
My dad is rich as fuck and he owns three pickup trucks because he drives boats and stuff to his lakehouse. That's pretty different from someone who works construction.
I got 14
>working class family with little disposable income and minimal education
But
>don't drink shit beer
>don't smoke
>don't eat at IHOP
>don't watch TV much
Clearly I am isolated from the world because of privilege
Lol
Also, the guy that wrote this
>>69191026
I love how you keep score in reverse, like golf. That wonderful white people sport.
35 points even tough lower middle-class all my life and the site claims i'm Upper middle-class
>>69191026
>>69191026
This quiz is bullshit.
I grew up lower middle class and I've worked my fair share of physically intensive jobs.
So what if I'm not a filthy television watching, movie going, parade participating plebian?
I got a 15, what does that mean?
What is this bullshit?
I literally grew up in the lower bracket of income and lived in ghettos all of my life. The only bubble I live in is the on where everyone is so poor they don't even have enough food each month.
>>69199835
The sandwich place?
>>69191026
>The leading qualifying beers are Budweiser, Coors, Miller or Busch (light or regular). The disdain of the new upper class for domestic mass-market beer is nearly as intense as its disdain for people who smoke cigarettes.
So if you don't like cheap swill, you've got white privilege? What if I support a local small business - a brewery - instead of lining the coffers of massive corporations?
>>69191026
I got 16, I am in a bubble
this may be true but not because I am rich as it claims
>>69191026
>Libertarian
OY VEY GOY DONT YOU KNOW THE FREE MARKET WILL FIX IT WHY THIS BOARD USE TO SHILL FOR RON PAUL AND NOW THE EVIL NAZIS ARE TAKING OVER!
>>69206162
Little L. Charles Murray is generally one of the good guys. I know most of /pol/ doesn't actually read, but if you did, you'd already know his name.
>>69191026
Apparently I'm fairly well integrated into US society!
is this good or bad? I can't tell
57
literally live in Branson
>>69206477
maybe I should also point out that I own my own company and made almost 200k this year, manual labor.
66
little do they know anime is my bubble
Rural Southerner so I'm this one:
>48–99: A lifelong resident of a working-class neighborhood with average television and movie going habits. Typical: 77.
Only scored lower because I don't eat out or watch shitty movies and TV shows.
it's bullshit
I got 60 and it says I'm middle class and shit because I don't watch shitty TV
how about fuck you guy, I've got other shit to do
I've never walked a factory floor because all the factories in my state were shut down
I make less than 10k and have every year of my life
>well below the poverty line throughout my childhood and am now living the broke college kid life
>get put into middle class because I don't drink or watch tv
k
I don't like shit movies and I'm too poor to go out to eat a lot and I got a 22. Wow, I'm such a white bigot for being poor and not watching Age of Fagtron.
>>69206477
so.... now those degenerates are obsessed with people conforming with and connecting to the mainstream culture.....cunts.
>>69191026
If you have hobbies aside from watching whatever you're presented on TV and you cook all your own meals this survey would say you're an insulated upperclass dickwad. If you choose to live a life outside of social media and prescribed programming it doesn't make you any less informed about the current social climate.
How the fuck am I supposed to know if the people in my neighborhood have degrees? Who just goes around the neighborhood and asks that?
>>69208723
>he doesn't know his neighbors
Hello there, bubble boy.
>>69199835
and both of the answers they give is right
>>69205043
i got the same score as you and grew up in the most stereotypical white middle class town imaginable
i think the real explanation for this test is that old people cant into the internet and create shitty interactive quizzes in an attempt to drum up viral support for their book across social media platforms
>>69205924
Also if you can't afford to drink, or you've got a problem with alcohol and don't drink for your own well being, you're upper middle class now.
Absolutely fucking amazing. The retarded cunt who made the quiz is more out of touch than the liberals he was trying to shame.
>>69191026
Close enough.
>>69191026
1st question
>Have you ever lived for at least a year in an American neighborhood in which the majority of your 50 nearest neighbors did not have college degrees?
how the fuck am i supposed to know? ask them? fuck that
I feel barbaric.
I got 33.
I wish I got lower, but my father was riff-raff lower-class worker, which pbs never considered I lived with for half of my life, so I am too high to visit the cloud district, but too low to be accepted into the ranks of idiots who are life-long exploited.
>>69209762
Poor people supposedly live in one big happy community where their neighbors are like family so they would know that.
Somehow the author of the quiz thinks they can manage that while getting shitfaced on bud lite every day while watching 12 hours of daytime TV and working two minimum wage factory jobs.
>>69198575
/pol/ is always right.
No exceptions
>>69209762
By not knowing the professions of your neighbours, you're indicating that you live in a bubble
>>69191026
>libertarian
>>69191026
>author of quiz which tells you if you live in a bubble clearly lives in a bubble
Kek
>>69199054
I scored a 50 just because I've worked shitty jobs. I haven't watched TV in 10+ years. The test is bogus as fuck.
>>69191026
Charles Murrays actually pretty based.
He's the one who wrote The Bell Curve.
What he's talking about is how upper-class whites (elitists) are becoming detached from lower-class whites as the middle-class begins to dissolve.
I got 32, don't have cable, not to I watch much films. Makes it sound like i'm sophisticated.
>>69210256
Proves only that Jews can be redpilled too, Finney. All should be so enlightened.
>>69191026
I don't understand the scoring. I couldn't really answer most of it because of geographical reasons though.
>>69210671
>libertardianism
>red-pilled
Open borders are wonderful goy!
Protectionism is bad goy!
>>69210454
Yes. It's quite irritating to watch rich whites bitch about not wanting more taxes because tyrone and laquisha may get some when the majority of it would be spent on other whites since there are numerically more poor whites than any other race.
>>69193979
It's easily treatable and pain can be managed. I
>>69191026
I got part way through it and realized it was more of a heap of shit than I expected.
One of the questions is have you or your spouse bought a pickup truck. Another was have you had an evangelical friend.
>>69210863
lol. Nice bait.
>>69191026
this quiz didn't strike me as racial at all
I grew up in and still live in Montana, the whitest state in the union, and scored a 56
>>69191026
I got 41, but I don't drink alcohol, smoke, or watch the Electric Jew since I started browsing /pol/
>>69205924
No you retard. If you don't drink what most of America drinks than you are out of touch with most of America.
7. I work in tech in the San Francisco Bay Area. I come to /pol/ to enjoy the b8 threads.
>>69211200
So you failed.
>>69191026
Its flawed. I answered honestly and it gave me a score of 53, which is pretty far off. I spent a good chunk of my life on welfare. As a child we were on section 8 after my mother was laid off from the factory. I know what its like to stand on a Cincinnati welfare line in the late 70's with my mother. Until my finished college, we were poor, I'm talking the gubmint cheese kinda poor. I was so poor, I was one of the kids who got his winter coats from the lost & found box at the school officer. I experienced juvenile incarceration and all that nonsense that comes with being ghetto ass broke.
My wife and I were on section8 while she went to college. Sure we are in a nicer income bracket now, but Im not as detached as it claims. I've also lived on both coasts, so I know the different cultures, even spending many years in the midwest and south. Grandpa was a 33rd degree Mason. Mom was a Job's daughter. At one point, I went to an almost all black school. These studies are horse shit. I'm more eclectic and connected to the Average American than anybody, because Ive lived at so many different levels in this country, breaking bread with so many different types of people.
Got a 7, rekt working class fags
So the study basically says that people who don't spend their whole day watching retarded tv shows and bullshit are more likely to be successful wealthy people.
Go fucking figure.
>>69210863
As if we want to fund white niggers either.
>>69199054
I scored a 31 and I never watch TV and watched 1 movie in theaters in probably the past 5-10 years. I dont even remember what movie I saw before the last one I watched.
>>69191026
I guess it is true.
I am 25, never worked a day in my life. My parents just gave me a car for my birthday and 8k grand long with saying they will pay for a trip for me to visit my cousin and friends in the pnw.
However, my parents are just middle class and I need to find a real job soonish. We don't eat at any of those places because they are expensive and we choose to eat cheaper too. As for the tv shit, I only watch star wars. I pretty much play video games and travel though. I taken Grey hound a few times so I know what it is like to travel with poor people.
>>69191026
>in the theaters or dvds
>paying for jewrywood
The fuck does this mean even? Can someone explain this to me?
Got a fucking 4. lol. Grew up in middle class suburbs with 2 college grad parents that work STEM and dad's a big boss in the gov't contracting work. Could have gotten a way bigger place in a nicer area but we have vacation homes instead. Bubble4life
>>69191524
>Why specifically whites?
Because all other races in America are encouraged to have solidarity on the basis of race. White elites have been trained to think that giving a shit about other whites makes you racist.
>>69211415
>I'm more eclectic and connected to the Average American than anybody, because Ive lived at so many different levels in this country, breaking bread with so many different types of people.
Except the Average American doesn't live like that.
Seems kinda lame tbqh. I got 62 because i worked a blue collar job.
Blue collar or watching a bunch of shitty television gets you a higher score.
>>69199054
I got the same score. No TV or movies, just blue collar jobs and trucks.
>>69192999
How long has this been "in" though, to me it seems like this has been standard procedure for decades.
>>69191026
This test is bullshit. I got 39. I live in a town with a population of a thousand people, and there were just over a hundred kids in my graduating class. I was raised by a single mother, so we were too poor to afford cable. I've known a lot of dropouts and addicts. What kind of bubble do they think I'm living in?
I've got a 50.
I've put on uniforms a couple times.
>29
Wew lad
