Word Origin Comics:How Classy Are You Really?

Let's have a class about class. It's not easy.
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Let's have a class about class. It's not easy.

"An old joke has an Oxford professor meeting an American former graduate student and asking him what he's working on these days. 'My thesis is on the survival of the class system in the United States.' 'Oh really, that's interesting: one didn't think there was a class system in the United States.' 'Nobody does. That's how it survives."

― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir

But we feel its presence daily.

"In effect, nobody who is not from the losing classes has ever been thrust into a death cell in these United States."

― Christopher Hitchens, Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays

"For their holidays: the rich go see the world; the poor go see their parents."

― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

How did our thinking about "class" evolve? Read on...

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