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		JohnFen on May 20, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Experiments find higher social class more likely t... > Americans try to convince themselves there are a lot of ways to be high class. I don't think this way at all. I tend to lean toward "high class" being an essentially meaningless term.

_khau on May 21, 2019 [–]

Are you implying that America doesn't have 'classes'?

JohnFen on May 21, 2019 | [–]

Not at all. I'm saying that the notion that the different classes has any meaning in terms of the value of the people in them is incorrect.

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