Class, not Race

[forsyth]

In my Arabic class, most everybody is your general Generic American College Student. A bunch of the other people are first or second generation kids of immigrants, but they were either born or grew up here in the US. So they're not very different from me.

But that makes sense. It's a self-selected group, sort of. I mean, they've got enough money to go to community college at least, and they don't already speak Arabic, so it's not like it's a class recent immigrants are going to take. So it's going to mostly be a fairly similar group of people, speaking on socio-economic levels. Which just adds more evidence to my thoughts that in a lot of ways, class matters more than race in the US these days, though the two are often intertwined.

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[evilcarp.livejournal.com]

Oh yah, class matters a lot more than most people want to credit it with. Of course, people of certain races, gender, religion, etc are more or less likely to be in a certain class.