This trend is immune to social progress elsewhere. If anything, people are more likely than ever to marry into their own class, as a report from the Institute for Public Policy Research showed this year. Of people born in 1958, just over a third of women had a partner from the same class as themselves: 38% married up, while 23% married down. For those born in 1970, 45% married into the same class; of those born between 1976 and 1981, 56% married into the same class, with a far smaller proportion (16%) marrying up.
这种趋势在社会进步的其他方面是免疫的。如果有什么的话,人们比以往任何时候都更愿意嫁进自己的阶层,从公共政策研究学院今年的一份报告显示。出生于1958年的人,刚刚超过三分之一的女性有一个来自他们自己阶层的伴侣:38%嫁入上层,而23%嫁入下层。对于那些1970年出生的人,45%嫁到同一个阶层,而在1976年和1981年之间出生的人有56%与同阶层的人结婚,更小比例(16%)的人嫁入上层。
Even the phrases "marrying up" and "marrying down" are sullying to use. You can't really escape the connotation that the rich are better than the poor. But I use them anyway, putting them in the grammatical equivalent of surgical gloves, because there is no right-on alternative: there's no unsnobbish way to convey a difference in class between two people. The leftwards path is to pretend class doesn't exist. Which is fine, but it's also total horse manure.
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