I was brought up in a strong working-class community by working-class parents and relations until I was 18, and that's what I really am. Now all sorts of things have been added, but that's what I am.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When I was young, I grew up in a family of working-class people. Not just my parents, but my extended family, as well.
My parents instilled a very strong work ethic in me from a young age, fortunately.
Look, everything that you experience as a kid is the foundation of how you are today. I was brought up in a working class family in Leeds and when it comes to money both my parents worked hard and instilled the same attitude into me.
My upbringing was middle-class but my parents' families were both working-class so I had this odd combination of working-class background but in a privileged position.
As a college student, I worked as a mentor, and that got me involved in working with young people long before I became a foster parent.
My parents grew up working class, but in that way that working class families do, they spent a fortune on education to better me.
From my parents, I learned a very strong work ethic, and all of my brothers and sisters all worked from the earliest days of life right through to the present time.
In my early teens, I acquired a kind of representative status: went on behalf of the family to wakes and funerals and so on. And I would be counted on as an adult contributor when it came to farm work - the hay in the summertime, for example.
Me and my peers, we're working really hard at being moms and sisters and professionals.
My mother was a teacher, my father was a community organizer. I come from a working class background.
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