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Group: uk.transport · Group Profile
Author: BrimstoneBrimstone Date: Sep 3, 2008 10:07
> On Sep 3, 9:30 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? ``I want my grand-children to be exactly the
>>> same as me.''
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>> Where is that said?
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> 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.
It's merely your interpretation, and not a very sensible one at that.
> 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.
Did he achieve that for them?
> The assumption that
> people aspire to pass their jobs and culture to their children is
> deeply patronising.
>
You really are totally clueless. My mother on at least one occasion, when I
expressed a desire to do a particular job, said that if it (a particular
type of job) was good enough for her father then it would good enough for
me. My grandfather was a cab driver.
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