Sentences with phrase «as upper middle class»

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As Aaron Wherry noted over at Maclean's, 64.9 % of Canadians consider themselves either «upper middle class» or «lower middle class.»

But as these middle and upper classes have a lot of expendable, disposable income, they are turning to golf just as a friendly pursuit,» Dreyer said.

Amazon's moves should help Whole Foods, long derided as «Whole Paycheck» for its high prices, to woo customers beyond its upper middle class clientele, as well as counter the discount chains such as Walmart and even Aldi as they vie for more of the organic and natural foods markets.

As a former activist, she believes that it's hard to reach lower - income communities if you have a staff that's upper middle class.

Respondents to the Palo Alto Weekly's survey cited the area's chronic housing crisis and high cost of living as reasons for identifying as middle - class instead of upper - class.

The assumptions of cutthroat libertarianism were so embedded in the worldview of these lucky newcomers that they spoke as though the victims of tech - fueled displacement and gentrification had chosen to live in poverty and squalor, just as they themselves chose to learn to code, chose a management - track job at a major corporation, and chose to set themselves up for a comfortable upper - middle - class suburban life.

In a 2006 survey, 64.9 % of Canadians identified themselves as either «upper middle class» or «lower middle class.»

To make a real dent, the super rich would need to pay even higher taxes, as would the upper - middle and middle classes.

However, I do think your standard, everyday millionaires in the USA do shop regularly at Walmart, such as farmers, small business owners, and upper middle class suburbanites.

The disorder also seems to afflict white middle and upper - middle class boys more than other ethnic groups, such as Asian - Americans.

Which means as long as we adopt progressive, upper - middle - class attitudes that function well only if you're actually upper - middle - class.

Those who choose this approach must beware lest they end up as self - centered and self - righteous communities of upper middle class people playing at being poor, preoccupied with their own problems and contributing little or nothing to helping others or to resolving the world's problems.

One might think that our white, upper - middle - class, nothing - but - the - best youngsters would respond positively to such concepts as «fairness» and «egalitarianism» — but apparently the best lesson we parents taught them was how to say No.

Young people who, as adults, merely retain the same level of upper - middle - class success that their parents have can regard themselves as standing still or coasting on the momentum acquired by their forebears.

But his key analytical model here, presented as a novel insight» that Progressivism was a movement of the middle class caught between perceived threats from the upper class above and the laboring and farming classes below» has been a commonplace of historiographical analysis since the 1950s.

Father Neuhaus has me as a defender of the spiritual life of today's upper middle class.

One of the things I have respected most in Aida Rosa, principal of the elementary school P.S. 30, and the teachers that I talk with on her staff is that they look at children here as children, not as «distorted children,» not as «morally disabled children,» not as «quasi-children» who require a peculiar arsenal of reconstructive strategies and stick - and - carrot ideologies that wouldn't be accepted for one hour by the parents or the teachers of the upper middle class.

I believe that when people espouse the values of a mother or wife exclusively being a homemaker, they are longing for a perceived simpler and easier time as opposed to truth, elevating a nostalgic look at motherhood from the standpoint of the post-war American dream of the white, upper - middle - class rather than Scripture.

We've done so because the people at the top prefer a permissive atmosphere that allows us to do as we wish» as long as we don't hurt anyone, a judgment call that ends up ruling out things upper - middle - class people don't like, such as smoking and putting glass bottles in plastics - only recycling bins.

I know of many groups who are very exclusive, meaning they exclude anyone who does not meet their standards, such as you need to be at least upper middle class, white and live in a good neighborhood to be part of the group.

By now it has been diffused widely through upper - middle - class culture in this country, most strongly on the west coast but elsewhere as well.

Almost everybody felt themselves at home in the «middle,» as the euphemism for the well - off, «upper middle class,» indicates.

«We are developing products that cater more to the upper middle class, as opposed to how many of our competitors brand their products as if they are in Italy,» President Mike McFall says.

You can count Ridgewood, Saddle River, Alpine and possible parts of Englewood and Tenafly as towns that require a considerable amount of wealth just to pay the real estate taxes but the rest of Bergen is upper middle to lower middle class.

Hmmm... I think by «American parenting», they might mean American upper - middle - class - and - probably - white - and urban - as - well, parenting.

The researchers set out to look at the relationship between homework load and student well - being in the upper middle class advantaged communities (where median household income is more than $ 90,000, and 93 percent of students go to college) because it is there that homework is largely accepted as having value.

It seems to me that a lot of the excitement around noncognitive skills comes from middle class and upper - middle class parents who want to know how their children can be as successful as possible in an ever more competitive world.

All of the women in the study were classified as having middle - to upper - class financial income levels, having supportive partners, and in the care of obstetricians.

So if you take a broad definition of «middle class» as the three middle classes (upper - middle don't think of themselves as rich, working don't think of themselves as poor), then you can appeal to about 88 % of the population.

Stephen Crabb, Andrea Leasdom and Liam Fox have all presented themselves as «One Nation» Conservatives who would unite working, middle and upper classes.

UPPER WEST SIDE — With three of his potential rivals seated in the front row, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer positioned himself as the candidate who will «reclaim» the city for the middle class during his annual State of the Borough address Thursday night.

As Chingos said, the concessions to middle - class (and upper - class) families «raise the concern that the drift is in helping politically vocal middle - and - upper - middle - class families as opposed to doing more for lower - income families.&raquAs Chingos said, the concessions to middle - class (and upper - class) families «raise the concern that the drift is in helping politically vocal middle - and - upper - middle - class families as opposed to doing more for lower - income families.&raquas opposed to doing more for lower - income families.»

State officials, as they did last time, framed this year's opt - out movement as largely a middle - and upper - middle - class phenomenon.

At least as important was the appeal to «excellent young people» attracted by the excitement and glamour of cutting - edge work and kept in their jobs by opportunities to build careers providing secure, upper - middle class lifestyles.

Middle - and upper - middle class people, as a result, express high expectations for their marriages, centering on self - fulfillment, deeply engaged parenting by both parents, and psycho - emotional awarMiddle - and upper - middle class people, as a result, express high expectations for their marriages, centering on self - fulfillment, deeply engaged parenting by both parents, and psycho - emotional awarmiddle class people, as a result, express high expectations for their marriages, centering on self - fulfillment, deeply engaged parenting by both parents, and psycho - emotional awareness.

Studies at Rice and Columbia Universities reported eye - opening findings about how many more words children who grow up in middle and upper - class homes hear on a daily basis as compared to lower - income children.

Ive been pitched as more upper middle class just because of this flighty life I used to live.

she found that if a user self - identified as upper - middle - class and identified the male.

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Grace, whom Timothy characterizes as «a society lady who spends her time rescuing wretched niggers,» seems a stand - in for upper middle - class whites who have «good intentions» with regard to racial justice.

As a satire of upper - middle - class Los Angeles, it's a disaster.

Game Night seems to be setting up Max and Annie as a high - achieving upper - middle - class power couple, but it turns out that where real life is concerned, they're only in the middle of the pack.

The subject — a disastrous honeymoon on the Dorset coast in 1962 — can only be explained by digging into the backgrounds of Florence (Saoirse Ronan), a bright, rebellious violinist from upper - middle - class parents (Samuel West, Emily Watson), and Edward (Billy Howle), an earnest history graduate snootily regarded by his in - laws as a country bumpkin.

The movie surely owes something to Polanski, Cronenberg, et al., in its use of an apparently placid, upper - middle - class setting as the background for perverse horrors, but De Van's fearless, high - wire performance is uniquely its own.

He plays Kersey as a velvet - voiced upper - middle - class daddy - saint, a tender and affectionate man who relishes his life of plenty but will cancel a birthday dinner to go to the hospital emergency room, where he presides over seemingly endless shifts of inner - city trauma.

Enough Said is a romantic comedy - drama from Nicole Holofcener, the writer - director of other critically acclaimed films exploring the daily travails of mostly upper middle - class affluent women (and men) in such as Lovely & Amazing and Friends with Money — something that invites comparisons to the works of Woody Allen often.

The comfortably upper - middle - class Meyers have recently lost their matriarch, as well as her prized box of recipes.

«Elles,» the provocative film by Malgoska Szumowska, borders on the pornographic as it explores the life of Anne (Juliette Binoche), an upper middle class journalist for «Elle» magazine, and the two student prostitutes who are the focus of her article.

She comes an upper - middle class gift thanks to Marlo's wealthy douchebag brother Craig (played with perfect upper class snobbery by Mark Duplass) as a «night nanny.»

The film opens as the interracial couple are getting ready to travel up to her family home in a lily - white, upper - middle - class enclave.