While watching the Nanny Diaries I came across this little nugget of knowledge: The biggest problem for any anthropologist studying a particular sociological model is that being exposed to this segmented group of people eventually leads to a total assimilation with them and the only way to stop this process is to immediately remove yourself from that environment.
Simply put, the environment you place yourself in shapes who you will become.
Here is a little story for you.
Before I came to America I was making good money, wearing cashmere coats, driving nice cars, and eating out whenever I wanted. I had never done a day’s worth of manual labor in my life.
When my country’s economy went belly up, I lost everything and came to the United States to find a new beginning.
I didn’t know anybody, didn’t have any money, and the only place that would hire me was a construction company.
My environment all of a sudden changed: from business-development to vinyl siding installation, from cashmere coat to Carhart overall, from a good food to McDonald’s, from sedans to pickup trucks, from my friends with college degrees, clean clothing and intact teeth to a bunch of stinky beat-up dentally-challenged rednecks.
At first it felt awkward and in some sense entertaining, but then I started noticing that after a while my entire system of values started to change: good food would mean Burger King instead of McDonald’s, good clothing would mean Carhart instead of Wal-Mart, good car would mean a beat-up pickup truck with a few hundreds miles on it that you can haul a pile of tools in instead of new shiny sedan (how are you going to put an air compressor in there?)
I even wore bandanas . . . in public!
It sucks you in! It starts to feel normal and acceptable!
It took years of swinging hammers and shifting equipment before I realized I wanted more (clean clothes, clean cars, good food,) longer to actually pull myself out of that environment.
Now, I don’t touch McDonalds or power tools anymore.
If I asked my co-workers their opinion about Internet marketing, or home based business, or Global Resorts Network what do you think they would’ve told me?
Was it hard to drag myself back up out of the mud? Yes, it was.
Was it worth it? Absolutely!
Remember what Scarlet said: Being exposed to a segmented group of people eventually leads to a total assimilation with them and the only way to stop this process is to immediately remove yourself from that environment.
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