I believe that your upbringing can and does strongly impact who you become later in life. My upbringing certainly shaped who I am and it makes me grateful for everything I have today.
I agree with UGAalum that as long as your current behavior is in line with how you were raised, there is nothing wrong with using that to relate to everyone else. Now, if someone born in wealth & raised in wealth kept trying to identify with me, I'd roll my eyes and walk away b/c they don't have the background knowledge & experience to attempt to identify with someone who was raised in poverty.
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By the time a woman realizes her mother was right, she has a daughter who thinks she is wrong.
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