I was watching the beauty and the beast cartoon by Disney. One thing I'm trying to wrap my head around is the implications that the main character feels like she's too good for life in her hometown. It feels to me like having a generation raised on the idea that the life they were born into is beneath them is kind of dangerous. Of course aim high, but for many people it's a noble and meaningful life to grow up in your hometown, marry a local girl, get a job doing what your parents did, and raise some kids with good moral values imbued inside of them. Aim too high and you won't even achieve that because you're trying for something you can't do instead of something achievable. We were happy living such lives for millennia, and everyone walking away from common lives is not sustainable...
I'm sure there is (I think disney had a series for every property back in the 90s), but no I mean the animated movie.
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You're not wrong. The men of my family has had a tradition for several generations of going on a "walz" in the sense of the german tradesman from the 17th century. It's because in order to start our lives, we have to go where the opportunities are, and perhaps with luck we'll get to come back home once we've build something of our lives. If there was enough opportunity right here we wouldn't have to go on a walz.