The rules of discussing class in Britain are, pleasingly, very like those of cricket. Once you know them, they seem incredibly obvious and intuitive and barely worth mentioning; if you don't know them, they are pointlessly, sadistically complicated, their exclusivity almost an exercise in snobbery in its own right.
在英国讨论阶级,令人愉快地就像板球的那些事。一旦你了解他们,他们似乎是令人难以置信的明显和直观,几乎不值一提;如果你不知道他们,他们毫无意义、残酷地复杂,他们的排他性在自己的权利范围内几乎是一个势利行径。
Nowhere is this more evident and yet more tacit than in relationships: people marry into their own class. It's called "assortative mating". You know this by looking around, yet there's such profound squeamishness about it that research tends to cluster around class proxies. The question goes: "Do you and your spouse share the same educational attainment?" (Translation: are you the same class?) Or: "Did you go to the same university?" (Translation: are you really, really the same class?)
没有哪比这更明显了,但在恋爱中更是心照不宣:人们选择门当户对的人结婚。这就是所谓的“同类配对”。你通过四处张望知道这些,但关于它如此严重地吃毛求疵以至于研究往往集中在阶级替代物周围。问题就到了:“你和你的配偶拥有相同的学历吗?”(言外之意:你们是同一阶层的吗?)或者说:“你们去了同一所大学吗?”(言外之意:你们真的、真的是同一阶层吗?)
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