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Wasp and Class
“Actual class struggles apart, one of the aesthetic ways you could prove that there was a class system in America was by cogitating on the word, or acronym, 'WASP.'First minted by E. Digby Baltzell in...
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History is written
“History is written by the rich, and so the poor get blamed for everything.” ― Jeffrey D. Sachs
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It is common knowledge
“It is common knowledge that a well-bred man should as far as possible have no face. That is to say, not so much be completely without one, but rather, should have a face and yet at the same time...
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She lacked the sheen of money
“She lacked the sheen of money, muscular good health, good skin, good clothes.” ― Jean Hanff Korelitz, Admission
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Had he lived some centuries ago
“Had he lived some centuries ago, in the brightly coloured civilizations of the past, he would have had a definite status, his rank and his income would have corresponded. But in his day the angel of...
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Now I realize that it is possible for the rich to sin
“It [being very rich] used to worry me, and I thought it wrong to have so many beautiful things when others had nothing. Now I realize that it is possible for the rich to sin by coveting the privileges...
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One of the most interesting results was part of a study
“One of the most interesting results was part of a study my students and I conducted dealing with status in email correspondence. Basically, we discovered that in any interaction, the person with the...
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You can tell the lowest class by their habit
“You can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next, by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest, by their preference for the...
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At its most basic, the logic of 'meritocracy' is ironclad:
“At its most basic, the logic of 'meritocracy' is ironclad: putting the most qualified, best equipped people into the positions of greates responsibility and import...But my central contention is that...
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Since Ivy League admissions
“Since Ivy League admissions data is a notoriously classified commodity, when when Harvard officials said in previous years that alumni kids were just better, you had to take their word. But then...
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Stop thinking about class
“Stop thinking about class, she'd say. Like a rich man telling a poor man to stop thinking about money.” ― John Fowles, The Collector
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The ruling class has always slavishly
“The ruling class has always slavishly followed industrial innovations, and we have always slavishly followed ruling class materialism. It is what keeps an assembly-line society functioning stylishly.”...
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In actuality, it was like the homes of all people
“In actuality, it was like the homes of all people who are not really rich but who want to look rich, and therefore end up looking like one another: it had damasks, ebony, plants, carpets, and...
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[I]f you don't feel or look rich,
“[I]f you don't feel or look rich, you don't necessarily feel the same sense of obligation that a traditional rich person does or should: Noblesse oblige is, after all, dependent on a classical idea...
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I have become very aware how under-represented
“I have become very aware how under-represented are the stories of the underprivileged and undervalued. Our records are, in general, very male and if not always the material of the rich, certainly (for...
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the establishment emphasized humility
“..... the establishment emphasized humility, prudence, lineage, meritocracy celebrates ambition, achievement, brains&self-betterment” ― Christopher Hayes, Twilight of the Elites: America After...
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Food has always been a class code
“[Joan C. Williams] Food has always been a class code, and since Alice Waters, the way to give an upper-middle class act is with food that is fresh and local...The class code of the upper-middle class...
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I always thought talent
“I always thought talent was everything, but maybe it was always money. Or even class. Or if not class exactly, connections.” ― Meg Wolitzer, The Interestings
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“Privilege implies exclusion from privilege
“Privilege implies exclusion from privilege, just as advantage implies disadvantage," Celine went on. "In the same mathematically reciprocal way, profit implies loss. If you and I exchange equal goods,...
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I saw behind me those who had gone
“I saw behind me those who had gone, and before me, those who are to come. I looked back and saw my father, and his father, and all our fathers, and in front, to see my son, and his son, and the sons...
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