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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Years ago somebody posted on DCUM a link to a story about an academic who studies class.  I can't find it now, maybe somebody else remembers. The point was that money was only one element of class; he had sort of a grid or ladder to explain it that also encompassed profession and education and maybe other factors.  [/quote]

We're not very good about discussing class in the U.S. We make it about money or sometimes race. Social distinctions based on education, manner of speech, dress, tastes in entertainment, and things like that are contrary to our self-image as a country that left social class back in the Old Country. Here in America, we are a class free meritocracy. But race and money don't tell the whole story. Who is more middle class: the dirt poor graduate student pursuing a PhD in literature or the high school dropout with poor, uneducated parents who made a bundle with a chain  of car washes? If it helps underscore the point, make the graduate student a first generation immigrant from South Asia and the dropout a white dude whose family has been here for generations. When we talk about poor immigrants versus rich white dudes, we don't really get at this class issue. [/quote]

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