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I always thought that my love of rap and opera plus mystery fiction and real literature was a result of my peasant background. But it turns out that I’m a typical rich Westerner:

Scores of studies show that individuals from educated and professional strata are more likely than low-status individuals to make diverse, or “omnivorous,” aesthetic
choices that cross boundaries, such as the divide between opera and rap music, to take but one example (Katz-Gerro 2004; Peterson 2005). This phenomenon, first
detected in the United States in a classic series of studies (e.g., Peterson and Kern 1996), appears to be characteristic of every rich Western country.

Fishman, Robert M. and Omar Lizardo. “How Macro-Historical Change Shapes Cultural Taste: Legacies of Democratization in Spain and Portugal.” American Sociological Review 78.2 (2013): 213-39.

Hmm.