[lbo-talk] black class gap

ravi ravi at platosbeard.org
Fri Nov 16 10:21:06 PST 2007


On Nov 16, 2007, at 1:08 PM, Andy F wrote:
> On Nov 16, 2007 11:48 AM, ravi <ravi at platosbeard.org> wrote:
>
>> I think I have told this story before: one of my first experiences in
>> grad school was a faculty and research assistants dinner where a
>> faculty member (or his/her spouse, I don't recall) corrected a FOB
>> (fresh off the boat) Indian kid's pronunciation of some word (I saw
>> the same thing happen elsewhere in school also). Fortunately, his
>> advisor who was British was standing nearby and with typical British
>> wit suggested that the Indian kid had the pronunciation down closer
>> than she/he did. By the time I got around to the point of reading
>> Bloom's idea of the Canon, I was on to the game. And now you have
>> supplied a term that describes it: high brow bluster!
>
> And this relates to Ehrenreich...how?
>

And it has to relate to Ehrenreich.... how?

(for the curious, visit the archives to read the immediately preceding part of my post that Andy F snipped out, to understand the context of the paragraph he left in).

--ravi



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