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Obama on Education: "An excellent education remains the clearest, surest route to the middle class." This is a really weird quote to me. Is class in the US an
by adaml_623 14y ago
Obama on Education: "An excellent education remains the clearest, surest route to the middle class."
This is a really weird quote to me. Is class in the US an aspirational thing? What is the best route to the upper class? What is the upper class? I for one am unsure about my new upper class overlords.
- jaredhansen 14y agoClass in the US is absolutely an aspirational thing, but he's referring not to "class" in the literal sense of positional status within society, but more to the material trappings of "middle class life": things like a house, one or two cars, the ability to take occasional vacations, cable TV, an iPhone, etc. Arguably many or most people want many or most of those things because of perceived status advantages they provide, but that's another issue altogether.