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I ran into that attitude (looking down on reading) in Mexico with my first boyfriend. He was always dissing me for reading (and for other things, but that's another story.)
There seems to be a cultural bias against reading, or perhaps intellectual pursuits in general. Maybe not at all class levels, but in the lower classes. A by-product of a near-universal 6th grade level of education, perhaps. If it's good-enough-for-me and a not-honest-work kind of thing.
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