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I read in sociology book that when someone in the privileged group marries a minority, they take on the social status of that minority group. ... You look at your child's face, and you don't wonder whose side you're on. You know. That side.
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This is a story about a ray-gun. The ray-gun will not be explained except to say "It shoots rays."
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Our fate: to be pole-axed and buried in the mud where the bridge of dreams will be built.
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Everything to my father was a gamble: roulette and blackjack, new rice variants and the arrival of the monsoon. When the pretender monarch Khamsing announced his new Lao Kingdom, my father gambled on civil disobedience. He bet on the teachings of Henry David Thoreau and on whisper sheets on lampposts. He bet on saffron-robed monks marching in protest and the hidden humanity of soldiers with well-oiled AK-47s.
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Was listening to an interview about race and he argues that in the 19th century being working class was considered a distinct race, as biologically inferior
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Ohhh that's interesting. It fits with a lot of older stuff I've read from England. Even from otherwise "progressive" people- like the way Marx writes about the lumpenproletariat is pretty off-putting. I'm trying to fit this into American history, and it seems like it would've had to have been a fairly limited idea in time and space... I could definitely see it being a thing in the South and Appalachia for a long time, but in other parts of the country the working class was largely ethnically distrinct- Irish, Italians, Jews, poles- from the dominant groups by the 1850s or so. That'd complicate it.
Actually just had a thought: That's The Time Machine!!! It's the whole plot of the future section, where the working and leisure classes have shifted so far apart they're different species
