[lit-ideas] Re: Reading Lolita in Tehran
- From: John McCreery <mccreery@xxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 11:27:48 +0900
On 2004/05/06, at 11:18, Veronica Caley wrote:
> Perhaps. But is it possible that people not in the middle class can
> work
> their way into it through coming in contact with literary fiction in a
> public school?
>
> Alternatively, is being poor but having positive values place one in
> the
> middle class? By positive values I guess I am showing mine. I mean
> ideas
> like considering education important and being taught to study, work
> hard,
> etc. Haven't millions of poor immigrants worked their way into the
> middle
> or upper class, at least as it concerns income?
Good questions. But what I had in mind was women in poor families
without access to public education (or to public education including
exposure to literary fiction). We live in a world where more than a
billion human beings subsist on less than one dollar a day, and the
overwhelming majority of women will have access to at most elementary
education.
John L. McCreery
The Word Works, Ltd.
55-13-202 Miyagaya, Nishi-ku
Yokohama, Japan 220-0006
Tel 81-45-314-9324
Email mccreery@xxxxxxx
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