One immediately recognizes that Ivy style is a nexus of converging influences, all of which reinforce an unspoken ideal of ruling-class privilege.

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It's a quirky fiction - fuelled by the British preoccupation with class, privilege and elitism, and by shared anxieties about inequality, exclusion and the function of education.

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David Willetts, the universities minister, argues that grammar schools entrench privilege because middle-class parents now prepare their children so well for the entrance exams that clever children who have not been coached do not pass.

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In Venezuela the class structure essentially was determined by access to state privilege.

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Although many people are worried that the middle class in the West is shrinking, Americans still enjoy immense privilege compared to the vast majority of people in the world.

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If we sincerely believe that healthcare is a basic human right for every member of our species, and not just a privilege for those who can afford it, then clearly, my colleagues in the Class of 2011, you have your work cut out for you.

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If the indignant depictions of the class system in so many Titanic dramas coexist uneasily with their adoring depictions of upper-crust privilege, that, too, is part of the appeal: it allows us to demonstrate our liberalism even as we indulge our consumerism.

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