Word: upper-class
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...clubby, and you probably were. Now you are consciously, sub-consciously and unconsciously racist and facist and sexist and communist (or Marxist-inspired) and incestuous and pederastic and homophilic and homophobic and wishy-washy and contentious and anarcho-syndicalist and autocratic and authoritarian and libertarian and middle-class and upper-class and naive and snobby...
Children raised in small, sheltered, upper-class environments have a greater chance of developing Hodgkin's disease, a form of cancer, than large families living in congested quearters, a report by two doctors associated with the School of Public Health (SPH), states...
Another flaw of The Girl I Left Behind is its definitively white, educated, upper-class outlook. Reilly comes from the world of a second house in the country, Seven Sister schools, and parties with Leonard Bernstein on Manhattan's Upper East Side. She assumes her readership will be able to relate to her multi-divorce, psychiatrist-guided life. But whether the majority of American women find O'Reilly's world view easy to identify with, she at least tries hard to reach them. She has attempted and still strikes to make mainstream and familiar a movement that is often threatening...
Other than encouraging women to work and to resist sexism in personal life, there are few similarities between AMNLAE and the North American women's movement. U.S. feminists are generally middle and upper-class professionals, whereas most AMNLAE members hail from the urban poor. According to Reyes, it is the popular sector women who feel more of a personal debt to the revolution, for they had more to gain from it economically...
...there are important differences between the old and new refugees. Besides the fact that the earlier arrivals drifted in over a period of 20 years, giving the community time to assimilate them, many were middle-or even upper-class Cubans who arrived with some money and marketable craft or professional skills, and they came in family groups. The new refugees are predominantly penniless workers. A disproportionate number are single young men who grew up under a Communist system and have no idea of what life in a capitalist democracy is like. Though the established Cubans have been generous with donations...