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3b7（3b7） Seventh unit Make a living Text B When children make a living differently from their parents, it is easy to have conceptual differences. This is Alfred Lubrano found?. He grew up in a construction workers family, and his education made him different from his fathers interests and ambitions. In this article he describes how this difference affects their father son relationship. Bricklayers son Alfred Lubrano? In the mid 1970s, my father and I were in a university. I go to school at the Columbia University, he was not far from the same street where the bricks, in a campus building thousands of live. Sometimes we go home by subway. He carries his tools. I have my books. We dont talk much about the day. My father wasnt interested in Dante, nor did I know anything about the arch. Lets watch a New York post talk about the MetS game. My father built many of the buildings in New York that he could not get into: the University, the apartment, the office building. He made a living outside the building. As soon as the high wall rises, the building gives him the impression that he is no longer welcome. But he didnt care. For my father, it was content to earn some money to get me into an expensive brick walled University, just as he went in himself. (1) we were not aware of that, but that was the day when we began to pull apart, and began to redefine the meaning of the workers in the family. Our father and son are connected by blood, but they belong to different classes. As a blue collar worker, a white-collar son is a hinge on the door between two different lifestyles. In just one generation, from the old way of life in Italy has become Americas yuppies is not an easy thing. Although the United States has the myth of mobility, but experts pointed out that the real situation is poor, poor, rich rich. Perhaps ten percent of the workforce has climbed from the working class to the technical level. My father accepted my decision as an ordinary newspaper reporter, because th