In this multicultural, I-accept-who-you-are, I-acknowledge-your-right-to-exist world, class is one of the few things people will try to make you alter and try to teach you how not to be… working-class people, steeped in their own culture and standards, must leave that identity behind and live as middle-class people in a middle-class world. —  Limbo: Blue-Collar Roots, White-Collar Dreams, Alfred Lubrano.