Sentences with phrase «middle class privilege»

This sort of thing rings of white middle class privilege, no offense to the organizers — it's just how these things tend to be and get propagated.

Being from middle class privilege with a UK passport makes life extremely easy to save up some money and getting out there in the world but you play the cards your dealt with and that is the only thing we can do.

It is about further entrenching middle class privilege which, ultimately, leaves clever but poor children more likely to be stuck with a second - best option, while their less bright but well - tutored peers are gifted a better education.

Not exact matches

As a straight, white, middle - class, Christian male sitting in the seat of privilege, I've had to swallow quite a few sugarcoated critiques from my brothers and sisters from different ethnic and socio - economic classes.

Cultural resistance to marriage In certain sections of society, marriage has been almost eliminated from the culture; increasingly it has become the privilege of the middle classes.

The «prophetic» approach would be to call on middle class North Americans to abandon their privilege and power for the sake of the oppressed.

He has deliberately aligned himself with the middle classes, celebrating their privileges and shouldering their burdens.

(*** Disclaimer: I am a white, middle - class, cis - gendered male who enjoys and can take advantage of these privileges I'm about to describe.

Business people continue to believe, mutatis mutandis, that «what is good for General Motors is good for America»; the new middle - class professionals, no doubt with equal sincerity, believe that the «reordering of national priorities» that guarantees their privileges benefits the poor, the underclass or whatever other morally acceptable beneficiary can be plausibly cited.

As a white, Western, middle - class woman, I enjoy some privileges that others do not, and I am often blinded by my own cultural assumptions and biases.

During the 1950s and early 1960s, it also became increasingly unpopular amongst Labour supporters and politicians, who argued that the system reinforced class division and the privileges of the middle classes, who dominated the grammar schools.

The director will, inevitably, take some flak for making a third consecutive film about the alienating side effects of celebrity and privilege — but as with Woody Allen and Upper East Side intelligentsia, or Mike Leigh and Britain's Tetley - swilling middle classes, this is the world she knows and feels, and if she feels a responsibility to keep circling back to it in her work, then she should do so.

Mason: Students, especially those in middle and high school, might resist teachers» attempts to «teach» texts steeped in popular culture, especially across the boundaries of race, class, language background, and privilege.

Middle - and upper - class white students may need help recognizing their own racial status and the privilege it affords them.

During the 1950s and 1960s, it was said, mainly by Labour politicians and egalitarian educationalists, that the selective education system reinforced class division and middle - class privilege.

However, parental involvement is often defined by the privileges of the white, middle - class parents who can afford to volunteer to be classroom parents, join the PTA and coordinate fundraisers.

Additionally, many of these parents do not have the same privilege of moving outside of their neighborhoods if their public schools are not performing at a level deemed to be «good» nor do they have the networks, resources, or time that many middle and upper - class families have to research better choices that are available to them (Hannah - Jones 2016).

Luxury was originally an elite privilege, but increasing democratization has opened up middle class aspiration as a huge new market.

I am referring here to a section of London's contemporary arts community comprising largely, but not exclusively, white middle - or upper - middle - class artists; a section unburdened by histories of oppression, suffused with privilege and the necessary leisure time available for seekership.

It is the Aboriginal middle class who are concerned about date changes and those pushing the agenda come from privilege in comparison to the Aboriginal people who are the country's most marginalised.

While protecting the best interest of the child is the appropriate goal for any population considered, the overlay of custody analysis, based on white, middle - class precepts of gender rights and privileges regarding the raising of children, does not sufficiently account for the realities of parental roles and responsibilities in many District of Columbia households.