Nope. I wasn't a debutante. I can also drive a tractor...and when I was young I could work circles around a lot of people. One grandfather was a farmer. The other was an accountant and shopkeeper..
We were never the elitist you envision. An oil camp is full of scientists and rough and tumble drillers.
Princess Elizabeth could fix the motors of Jeeps as a volunteer during
World War II. I can drive a tractor----because I am very experienced in
using a STANDARD SHIFT which is all one needs to drive a tractor----
I never considered that ability an indication of WORLDLY. Accountant
and shopkeeper is still genteel and "farmer" in the Southern part of
the USA does not mean----A PERSON WHO PULLS A PLOW. Your
claim to EXPERIENCED still alludes me-----you, certainly, have no
concept of the life and times and ethos of JESUS. As to the
SOCIAL systems in which you claim EXPERTISE---even people who
were born and lived in such places have ASSURED ME that they
are utterly closed societies in which THE PATELS have no idea what
THE QUERESHIS are doing. All they know is they don't like each
other much. The Iranian ----well that is a really glorious example
of utterly fractionated