Who Are WE RV'ers Really?
It has occurred to me that much of the contentious discussion on this site that so infuriates the moderators and others is due in part to the varied ideas we have about just who is an "RVer" and the d...
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fulltimedaniel wrote:
. . . I would also respectfully point out that AMERICAN is a label, as is almost any other identifier. We give ourselves labels and others put labels on us. There is no intrinsic harm or anything wrong with labels. The harm comes from the motivation for the label from who it comes and for who it is intended and whether that label is pejorative in some way.
And I disagree that all RV'ers are the same, My guess is that you have virtually nothing in common with the old lady and her 24 cats living in her broken down "RV" in a trailer park in Yuma. So just having an RV does not make one an RV'er.
This is an assertion of bragging rights hiding behind observations. Labeling each group based on how far you've been in your travels, the number of campgrounds you've been in and the type of rig you have flies in the face of abject showing off.
What would other Rvers feel having to read your unrequited drivel. . . if one RV owner has an inferior model or hardly pulls his RV out of storage.
It's nice to know that someone possesses a half million dollar RV, but one doesn't need to rub it in.
It undermines the self image of another.
Your analogy for being labeled an American is faulty. Though we strive for diversity. . .being identified as American or other nationality is a prerequisite for maintaining order in modern society. We label things. . . not people.
And on the same vein, if a person who pursued higher learning and conferred as having completed a degree and awarded a title as say doctor, engineer or psychologist, would you call them labels?
I own an RV not because I want to keep up with the Joneses, like covering thousands of miles each season, checking in at hundreds of campgrounds in a month's time and knowing everything there is to know about Rving.
You did not mention if you still maintain stick and brick domicile.
As for me, I enjoy going on a trip, whether it is domestic or overseas but I still feel comfortable coming home to a 4000 SF house compared to cramped up 200 SF traveling bathroom/shed on wheels.
Don't get me wrong, I only have a 28 Ft. Class A with all the amenities and modern features that give us comfort . . . and I enjoy it.
I understand that you posted this without malice but modesty gives a person's speech more powerful.
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He who speaks without modesty will find it more difficult to make his words good (Confucius)
