That’s an unwarranted generality. In my experience, the likelihood of an American claiming to believe that is positively correlated with socioeconomic status: those with higher status are more likely to believe status reflects merit.
Agree somewhat. Just like many Muslim women have bought into the misogyny inherent in having to wear a burqa, many people on the bottom in America have bought into the meritocracy and American Dream myths.
For the most part I do. Americans disparage Muslim practices like this as backward, yet women here get arrested for breastfeeding in public. American puritanical attitudes differ from Muslim attitudes by degree, not kind. I’m generalizing of course. I’m talking about cultures, not every individual.
Your arguments might be more compelling if you'd stick to one domain within a discussion, or at the very least, non-distractingly coherent ones. Your first comment was germane. This less so.
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How is commuting morally acceptable?
That’s an unwarranted generality. In my experience, the likelihood of an American claiming to believe that is positively correlated with socioeconomic status: those with higher status are more likely to believe status reflects merit.
Agree somewhat. Just like many Muslim women have bought into the misogyny inherent in having to wear a burqa, many people on the bottom in America have bought into the meritocracy and American Dream myths.
I'm disinclined to view one set of sex-specific cultural standards of modesty as inherently sexist unless one views all of them that way.
For the most part I do. Americans disparage Muslim practices like this as backward, yet women here get arrested for breastfeeding in public. American puritanical attitudes differ from Muslim attitudes by degree, not kind. I’m generalizing of course. I’m talking about cultures, not every individual.
Your arguments might be more compelling if you'd stick to one domain within a discussion, or at the very least, non-distractingly coherent ones. Your first comment was germane. This less so.
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It correlates much less than one would think, much as being anti-burqa doesn’t correlate with gender within a Muslim population as much as we’d think.
Fair enough, though that wasn't clearly communicated.