[andreskytt]

Some of this feels a bit artificial. Maybe it’s just me but I feel mostly like that at _all_ parties. And I dont’ belong to or mingle with elite in the sense she means. Also, it would seem there’s a simple lack of context: would she have a fundamentally different experience at a gathering of, say, biochemists?

[tsimionescu]

> Also, it would seem there’s a simple lack of context: would she have a fundamentally different experience at a gathering of, say, biochemists?

Do you mean a conference for biochemists, or a party? At a party, I'd bet she wouldn't have the same experience, even if she wouldn't get the occasional joke.