http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/06/arts/06BOUR.html
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> This resulted partly from a conviction that, as Douglas Holt, a
>professor of marketing at the Harvard Business School, put it,
>"we're not a class-based society and that status works in a crasser
>way here: it's driven by money, not culture." Moreover, even
>researchers interested in class had found that consumption habits
>did not tend to reveal very much about class affiliation: you
>cannot distinguish rich from poor on the basis of who shops at the
>Gap or listens to Eminem.
The U.S. isn't class-based and yet there's class affiliation? Is it me or is this paragraph wacked?
Pete