[ISL] My Unrepresentative PEI Friends
Oct. 3rd, 2005 02:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmcdonaldThinking about my friends from PEI--![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
choreo_m, creases, erins_pubs, london_calling, teridian, others--I've realized just recently that we all form a highly unrepresentative sampling of the general population of PEI. In a province where 85% of the population is native to the Island, many of us have moved from elsewhere or have at least one non-Islander or non-Canadian parent; in a province that's largely rural, we all come from Charlottetown; in a province with levels of income and education somewhat below the Canadian average, we all come from middle-class or better home and have at least one university-level degree. How much of our experience is generalizable to all Prince Edward Island? Not all that much, I reckon.
UPDATE (5:55 PM) :erins_pub isn't from Charlottetown, but from Stanhope. Even so, we are all from central PEI. I think my overall point still stands.
choreo_m, creases, erins_pubs, london_calling, teridian, others--I've realized just recently that we all form a highly unrepresentative sampling of the general population of PEI. In a province where 85% of the population is native to the Island, many of us have moved from elsewhere or have at least one non-Islander or non-Canadian parent; in a province that's largely rural, we all come from Charlottetown; in a province with levels of income and education somewhat below the Canadian average, we all come from middle-class or better home and have at least one university-level degree. How much of our experience is generalizable to all Prince Edward Island? Not all that much, I reckon.UPDATE (5:55 PM) :
erins_pub isn't from Charlottetown, but from Stanhope. Even so, we are all from central PEI. I think my overall point still stands.
