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Re: Tradition != Tribal Custom Revisited

#518
From: Jim Price
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 00:00
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I don't really believe that "class" has anything to do with degree
attainment.  You probably think Slobadon Milosevic, the Serbian butcher, an
MD and poet, has "class".  Senator Joe McCarthy, of the Red Scare fame, was
a US Senator and lawyer - lots of "class" there.  I am sure I can go on but
you get the point.

easttom@redriverok.com wrote in message <6n9g44$q8r$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>...
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>
>> : Well did you think it was going to happen in one or two generations?
>> : It takes time for language to catch up with cultural change. Words
>> : that surround basics (sun, man, air etc.)  and kinship take the
>> : longest to change. The point is that more and more educated women are
>> : keeping their own names after marriage. Soon enough that will filter
>> : down to lower-class women and eventually even Baptists.
>
>>
>
>Hmm I work at a University where the Dean of arts and Letters (With a Phd)
>and his wife (Also a PhD) are both Baptist, in fact he is a Baptist Deacon.
>Oh, and one of the professors of Business Information Mgt (With a PhD) is
an
>ordained Baptist Minister.  Lets also not forget the head of the Physical
>Sciences department (PhD in Nuclear Physics) is also a Baptist.
>
>They will all be really suprised when they see that they are less than
"lower
>-class"
>
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From: "Jim Price" <pricej001@hawaii.rr.com>
Subject: Re: Tradition != Tribal Custom Revisited
Date: 1998/06/29
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