Just watched a chunk of a PBS documentary called "People Like Us".
There was a section in which they attempted to use high school as a microcosm to demonstrate the formation of class consciousness at a young age. As you can imagine, the producers let the rich kids talk long enough to sound like real boneheads and like a bunch of ignorant and bigoted maroons.
Funny thing.
The high schools they interviewed were some Austin, TX high schools. The rich kid school being Anderson high school. You know, I went to high school briefly in Austin and I don't remember it having a reputation for being full of rich a-holes. Upper middle class a-holes, yeah. But rich a-holes? That was reserved for the Westlake kids when I was in Austin. (ex: they had astroturf on their high school football field).
Nonetheless, it's a good doc. Worth watching, even if it makes you uncomfortable from time to time.
Oh, and the guy who runs UT's film department was somehow attached in the credits. I should have scrolled back on my DVR to see if I knew anybody, but I went and changed the channel. If anyone from Austin knows anything more about this doc, let me know.
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