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da0d939
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...I'm worried I will leave grad school and no longer be able to speak English. I know this woman in grad school, a friend of a friend, and just listening to her talk is scary. The semiotic dialetics of intertextual modernity. Which makes no sense at all. Sometimes I feel that they live in a parallel universe of academia speaking acadamese instead of English and they don't really know what's happening in the real world.
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funny
elitism
english
graduate-school
intellects
long-words
pomposity
language
university
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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12d1beb
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English does not distinguish between arrogant-up (irreverence toward the temporarily powerful) and arrogant-down (directed at the small guy).
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racism
bill-o-reilly
blue-collar-snobbery
egalitarianism
proud-ignorance
tea-party-movement
pride-and-prejudice
narcissism
elitism
pride
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb |
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baaa41a
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She's on the stairs, ma'am, getting her breath,' said the young servant, who had not been long up from the country, where my mother had the excellent habit of getting all her servants. Often she had seen them born. That's the only way to get really good ones. And they're the rarest of luxuries.
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humor
class
elitism
society
servants
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Marcel Proust |
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bac5f00
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"Of England's patrician class, the author writes: "It was easy to be agreeable when everything was done to keep them in comfort and ease."
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idolatry
elitism
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Barbara W. Tuchman |
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e1f2caa
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"Now you take dark Negroes like you, Mr. Griffin, and me," he went on. "We're old Uncle Toms to our people, no matter how much education and morals we've got. No, you have to be almost a mulatto, have your hair conked and all slicked out and look like a Valentino. Then the Negro will look up to you. You've got class. Isn't that a pitiful hero-type?" "And the white man knows that," Mr. Davis said. "Yes," the cafe owner continued. "He utilizes this knowledge to flatter some of us, tell us we're above our people, not like most Negroes. We're so stupid we fall for it and work against own own. Why, if we'd work just half as hard to boost our race as we do to please whites whose attentions flatter us, we'd really get somewhere."
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elitism
race-issues
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John Howard Griffin |