Bruce Nevin (980421.0053 EDT) responding to Mike Acree re: Burke..
<Historical review snipped>
Note that a child who is not born to the managerial elite could be
"motivated", could desire and work for academic success, only with deep
conflict. You are not accepted by those to whom it comes naturally because
clearly you are not one of them; and your efforts are seen by your
working-class peers as a rejection of them. "Whaddaya think y'r better than
us?" One way of dealing with the conflict is to cultivate the persona of a
nonconformist loner. Another is to try and fail, finding acceptance by
fulfilling the expectations of all concerned. The conflicts experienced by
a working-class kid are even more acute for racial minorities. In all of
this, suppression of "unruly human nature" takes on class and racial
overtones, or perhaps those are the fundamentals and not overtones at all.I may not be saying it well, but I know what I'm talking about here.
Bruce
At the high personal cost of using a word I do not hold in high regard,
I can "resonate" with what you say above. I suspect you do know whereof
you speak. So do I...
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