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Group: uk.transport · Group Profile
Author: i.g.batteni.g.batten Date: Sep 3, 2008 08:55
On Sep 3, 9:30Â am, "Brimstone" yahoo.co.uk> wrote:>>> Unless it was your job, and those of your children and
>>> grand-children, that were swept away.
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>> There's ambition, eh? Â ``I want my grand-children to be exactly the
>> same as me.''
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> Where is that said?
The only possible interpretation of the concept of ``your job, and
those of your children and grand-children'' is that you believe that
jobs are like furniture, passed from generation to generation. My
paternal grandfather was born to a family of manual labourers. He
wanted nothing more that to escape that, and he wanted nothing but the
best for his children so that they could escape the poverty
--- both
material and cultural --- of his upbringing. The assumption that
people aspire to pass their jobs and culture to their children is
deeply patronising.
ian
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