Related:

• Recreational Slumming: The practice of participating in recreational activities of a class one perceives as lower than one's ow
  Karen! Donald! Let's go bowling tonight! And don't worry about shoes....
• Occupational Slumming: Taking a job well beneath one's skill or education level as a means of retreat from adult responsibilities and/or avoiding possible failure in one's true occupation.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• Nutritional Slumming: Food whose enjoyment stems not from flavor but from complex mixture of class connotations, nostalgia signals, and packaging semiotic
  Katie and I bought this tub of Multi-Whip instead of real whip cream because we thought petroleum distillate whip topping seemed like the sort of food that air force wives stationed in Pensacola back in the early sixties would feed their husbands to celebrate a career promotion....
• Historical Slumming: The act of visiting locations such as dine
  mokestack industrial sites, rural villages - locations where time appears to have been frozen many years back - so as to experience relief when one returns "back to the present....
• Ozmosis: The inability of one's job to live up to one's self-image.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• Conspicuous Minimalism: A life-style tactic similar to Status Substitution.
  The nonownership of material goods flaunted as a token of moral and intellectual superiority....
• Earth Tones: A youthful subgroup interested in vegetarianism, tie-dyed outfits, mild recreational drugs, and good stereo equipment.
  Earnest, frequently lacking in humor. -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• Cafe Minimalism: To espouse a philosophy of minimalism without actually putting into practice any of its tenets.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• Knee-Jerk Irony: The tendency to make flippant ironic comments as a reflexive matter of course in everyday conversation.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...