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Teaching the Virtues — The Forerunner on 2009-03-10
- “You are not going to have moral people until
  you have moral institutions. You will not have moral citizens until you have a
  moral government.”
  - Cathy Zhang on 2009-03-10
    
    I think that she has this backwards. I think that you are not going to have moral institutions until you have moral people because people and their ideas make up these institutions.
- Perhaps the students themselves were part of
  the problem. Perhaps it was their high school experience that led them to become
  moral agnostics. Even so, I felt that my classes were doing nothing to change
  them.
  - Cathy Zhang on 2009-03-10
    
    I think that he's right that high school plays a role in the lack of private morality in students. In many high schools, especially the more competitive ones, students learn just by being in such a competitive environment that they have to do anything to get into the college of their choice. Even after they get to college, I think that attitude stays with them.
Classical Quartet Dares to Go Mainstream | Columbia Spectator on 2009-03-08
- The classical music community increasingly has been striving to demystify what
  has become an overly-canonized and esoteric art form, and to make it as creative
  and mainstream as it was in the time of Mozart and Beethoven.
  - Cathy Zhang on 2009-03-08
    
    While the Chiara String Quartet would like to make their music more mainstream, I doubt this will happen. Instead, I think that their efforts will make their music more appreciate among the types of people who already appreciate it, and this depends highly on class and culture.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/30/fashion/30ugly.html?pagewanted=2 on 2009-03-08
- Social scientists investigating beauty have found that people across age groups,
  races and cultures tend to agree on what constitutes facial attraction
  - Cathy Zhang on 2009-03-08
    
    Besides facial attraction, a lot of other factors help determine if a person thinks someone else is beautiful or not. For example, the way a woman dresses, applies her makeup, or carries herself can affect if people think she is beautiful or not. I think that people of different classes would view this type of beauty differently because if culture differences between the classes.
Secret Psychology - B Side on 2009-03-08
- "The greatest lesson I learned at the University of Vermont came from seeing how
  my white peers treat the housekeepers. Nothing has disgusted me and inspired me
  more."
  - Cathy Zhang on 2009-03-08
    
    This certainly reflects the difficulties of clashes between classes and shows that racism often plays a role in determining one's class. The author takes note that these students are white to show that she feels that they think, they have the upper hand because of their race.
Class Matters - Social Class and Marriage in the United States of America - The New York Times - New York Times on 2009-03-02
In Hollywood, Class Doesn't Put Up Much of a Struggle - New York Times on 2009-03-02
- Increasingly in recent years movies have been dealing with power issues and
  class relationships -- inter actions between masters and servants, executives
  and underlings, yuppies and waitresses, millionaires and hookers, rich
  aristocrats and social-nobody lawyers.
  - Cathy Zhang on 2009-03-02
    
    Maybe this is because class divisions have become more noticeable in recent years and the distribution of wealth has become more uneven?
http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Practices/Class-Relationships/3 on 2009-03-02
- A usage dependency is one in which the
  
  client requires the presence of the supplier
  for its correct functioning or
  
  implementation.
  - Cathy Zhang on 2009-03-02
    
    In many situations, the upper class and working/lower classes have a usage dependency in which the upper class depends on the lower classes.
Class Relationships on 2009-03-02
Speechifying: So-called hook up culture and the anti-feminists who love it - Feministing on 2009-02-25
- is that well-educated and socially engaged
  women don't make
  
  for sexy
  headlines and they certainly don't sell books.
  - Cathy Zhang on 2009-02-25
    
    She seems to be suggesting that people are warning the public about the dangers of promiscuity for women just to have something to talk about, which is highly doubtful. She makes lots of statements like this throughout her article which just seem a little ridiculous, which makes what she's saying less credible.
- But instead, we're stuck talking about what a shame it is that young women are
  having sex, when the truth is,
  it isn't
  - Cathy Zhang on 2009-02-25
    
    I agree with him that some people who write and speak out against promiscuity for women are a bit over the top. True, the statistics about women who have premarital sex being poor, depressed, and disease-ridden sound ridiculous. But I think that some of her points are just as ridiculous on the opposite side of the spectrum. It seems as if she is suggesting that sex can be just as casual for girls as it can for guys, and I don't agree with this. Girls tend to get more emotionally attached (at least from what I've noticed) and the risks are a lot higher. There must be reasons that writers say girls who have a lot of sex are more depressed, and I feel like she ignores these facts and writes them off as ridiculous.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/12/books/review/12wolf.html?pagewanted=2 on 2009-02-24
- Success and failure are entirely signaled by material possessions —
  specifically, by brands
  - Cathy Zhang on 2009-02-24
    
    This reminds me of an article I read about how people of different social classes classify success and failure. The article said that the upper classes tend to classify success based on material possessions and that working classes tend to attribute success to courageousness and diligency. I'm not sure about the second part but this article seems to support the first part of that thesis.