It was once common to regard Britain as a society with class distinction.

人们曾经普遍认为英国是一个有阶级差别的社会。

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In American society, however, the class structure was less rigid; some people changed occupations easily and believed it was their duty to improve their social and economic position.

然而，在美国社会，阶级结构没有那么严格；有些人很轻易地就改变了职业，并认为提高他们的社会和经济地位是他们自己的责任。

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And in modern day consumer society everyone is considered to be middle class.

在现代消费社会，每个人都被认为是中产阶级。

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If you want to have power in this society you must master the three literacies this is a class about power,your power."

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It became a hierarchical society rooted very deeply in open conceptions of class and obviously open conceptions of race.

南方的阶级社会,深深地植根于,广大的阶级观念上和,普遍的种族观念上

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One of the discomforts, one of the reasons that I think so many people in society and even in this class are uncomfortable when it comes to computers and intimidated by technology and kind of throw up their hands when things go wrong that you don't understand is frankly not necessarily your fault.

当我想到在社会中，即使在这个班级上,有那么多的人,使用计算机时是不舒服的,他们被这种科技吓到了，束手无策,当发生故障时，你也不知道，其实,这也不是你的过错。

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What we cannot dispute, however, is that when offenders from one class of society receive harsher treatment than offenders from another class, the integrity of our entire judicial system suffers.

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National policy favored business and promoted rapid economic growth, creating a 100 million person middle class society.

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There's no straightforward link between your actual position in society and what class you think you're in, says Savage.

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