Maybe it's depressing. But it's the truth of the world. I grew up in the country, I grew up with people whose accents were a huge handicap to any type of career I wanted, well any where I had to talk to people.

I had to change it very fast. The accent I grew up with told people that I was a redneck, and most people where I come from are. It's a stereotype based on a level of truth I can't deny.

Where I come from, there is no hope, and I have nothing but contempt for the old school mates who didn't try to escape.

Pride in ignorance. I don't understand that, but people have it, and there is weird bizarre pride in being a bogan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogan) in my country, when it's just plain pathetic, like people can't do better. *sigh*