When I went to university in Regina, there was a very wealthy Indian family whose children I was in a peripheral social group of.
The daughter specifically was in several of my classes and often needed assistance, so I got to know her really well. Not “friends” but certainly “commonly seen together”.
I think she was one of the single most clueless people I have ever met in my life. She expressed, for example, surprise that we didn’t all have maids. Because “everyone has a maid”. We’d pressed her by asking if her maids had maids, but it never clicked for her. She just couldn’t comprehend that you could go through life without servants. (Not slaves, though. PAID servants.)
She was a genuinely nice person, but so utterly disconnected from reality that talking to her was often the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience. Her father was a decent man, too. He was “self-made” (in that he didn’t inherit wealth, just some privilege and contacts) and thus pretty grounded. He contributed to his community and was by all accounts a good neighbour.
His eldest son, Sunil, however, was an asshole, pure and simple. He would be just the kind of person that would turn into a “Fred Trump” once his father’s moderating influence was gone.
When I went to university in Regina, there was a very wealthy Indian family whose children I was in a peripheral social group of.
The daughter specifically was in several of my classes and often needed assistance, so I got to know her really well. Not “friends” but certainly “commonly seen together”.
I think she was one of the single most clueless people I have ever met in my life. She expressed, for example, surprise that we didn’t all have maids. Because “everyone has a maid”. We’d pressed her by asking if her maids had maids, but it never clicked for her. She just couldn’t comprehend that you could go through life without servants. (Not slaves, though. PAID servants.)
She was a genuinely nice person, but so utterly disconnected from reality that talking to her was often the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience. Her father was a decent man, too. He was “self-made” (in that he didn’t inherit wealth, just some privilege and contacts) and thus pretty grounded. He contributed to his community and was by all accounts a good neighbour.
His eldest son, Sunil, however, was an asshole, pure and simple. He would be just the kind of person that would turn into a “Fred Trump” once his father’s moderating influence was gone.