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Teo You Yenn
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This Is What Inequality Looks Like
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published
2018
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11 editions
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Living with Myths in Singapore
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published
2017
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2 editions
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Unease: Life in Singapore Families
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“Through the discourse and institutionalization of meritocracy, the narrative of large-scale upward mobility is thereby made concrete at the individual level. The connection between national success and individual merit is a powerful public and private narrative that shapes those who've arrived, those in motion, and those standing still. To return to the two people who quipped about cold showers and bed bugs, we could say that the national narrative of mobility is powerfully grafted onto their individual narratives of worth”
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“What we do & do not do are shaped by our sense of how others are - shared understanding of right & wrong, good & bad, valuable & worthless.”
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“To be young & middle-class is to be able to delay autonomy, to hold off responsibility toward others, to be given the benefit of the doubt when one makes mistakes. to have time to learn, to live under parental protection until one is ready to fly. Youth from low-income families do not have the luxury of time to ride this stage out.”
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