Word: underclass
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...This is the way Hollywood, in its so-called Golden Age, socialized America: by showing beautiful people in chic clothes trying to behave honorably - sometimes while singing and dancing. It's not a stretch to say that movies taught the underclass how to act like the middle and upper classes. High School Musical and Take the Lead may be no one's idea of classic, or even very good, movies, but they are in that gentle pedagogic mold. And they are catching tweens at maybe the last age when they might acknowledge - in their secret, not-yet-stereotyped hearts - that...
...have different approaches to religious law and practice, and different notions of religious hierarchy, but both observe the same fundamental tenets of Islam. Although Shiism is the overwhelmingly dominant form of Islam among the Persians of Iran, in most of the Arab world Shiites are an impoverished and disenfranchised underclass. And the more extremist Sunni "Salafist" tradition that predominates in Saudi Arabia, as well as among the jihadists of al-Qaeda, denigrates Shiites as apostates. Within both Shiism and the Sunni tradition, however, there are a variety of different approaches to theological, legal and political questions, and they have coexisted...
...focusing on Japan's urban underclass, Tatsumi's stories feature many characters traditional to crime melodrama - pimps, prostitutes and hitmen - but without the glamour often associated with them. They toil and suffer in their labor as miserably as their counterparts in the "straight" world. The pimp, for example, begins to hate himself for sponging off of his prostitute girlfriend. So he runs off with another girl to the country to start a new life. On the way she says, "I'll work hard and take care of you," as he looks at her askance. Who among us hasn't made...
...service because they can afford to provide their children with better options, then the war in Iraq starts to look not just ill-advised but downright unjust. Suddenly Bush and his cronies start to look like the pampered pansies, while anti-war liberals can claim to be representing the underclass. Second, liberals want to believe that the people who fight in unjust wars don’t have any other choice. If that’s true, then the troops bear no responsibility for the war in Iraq; it’s all the fault of the chickenhawk...
...Salah-Brahim sees the abusive checks as designed to keep the underclass shut away. "These check points the cops set up - they're road blocks to dissuade us from going into town," Salah-Brahim remarks, saying there isn't much option since "every business has moved out of here - there's nothing left". The same barriers exist for schools and in the job market, he continues. Despite his good grades and keen interest in advanced business studies, Salah-Brahim recalls being told by advisors that it would be more practical for him to learn a manual trade. "I applied...