the poor or the rich, the dressed fine or those with cheap outfit: they all can be happy: if no one is trying to destroy their dignity and liberty.
1 – “Sailors in Cartagena” 2 – “African Kids” – both photos by *NinaMalina*, click on the pictures to enter her galleries on Flickr
P.S.:
Yesterday I found a CLASS CALCULATOR published at www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine – hey – a silly tool, isn’t it? Is THAT the result of social sciences, no further thinking and analyzing?
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if you like, then find out your own social class, are you:
Elite
Established middle class
Technical middle class
New affluent workers
Traditional working class
Emergent service workers
Precariat
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my opinion: a horrible flat social science;
needed: another level of thinking and analyzing …
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so true, great photos!
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i love the smile on those kids’ faces..
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I agree. So very true.
BE ENCOURAGED! BE BLESSED!
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Hi Frizztext…this is a bit, just a bit off topic but I STUMBLEdUPON a post I think you might get a few giggles from http://inktank.fi/in-photography-timing-really-is-everything/ Hope you get a chance to check it out, enjoy, Alexandra
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hi Alexandra,
thank you for the link to the humorous gallery at inktank.fi – I added the link to my article
“perfectly timed photos”
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used the calculator and I’m TECHNICAL MIDDLE CLASS… a prosperous new sector of society…how about that?! very interesting that we can now be classified by submitting a few personal details 🙂
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hi Alexandra,
I hope you are satisfied with your position
between elite and precariat 🙂
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submitting only a few details (job, monthly income)
maybe they cannot discover the quality of one’s life …
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most definitely, a label says little when you make the most of your day to day achieving a feeling of satisfaction and fulfillment not related to money and status but to spirit!
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blogging supports
“… fulfillment not related to money and status
but to spirit!”
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🙂
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yes, simple and true, all we need is our dignity, liberty and love!
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Such happy kids with so little, puts some of our western kids to shame.
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Hey, thank you for visitng my Flicker photostram and sharing my photos on your blog!! ❤ Much love!
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thank you for your great portraits, Nina!
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I agree too. Amazing point. Thank you, have a nice weekend, love, nia
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YES, dignity and liberty!! Thank you, Frizz!
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So true, I agree with you. The tool is pointless. I actually had fun changing answers and whatever you pick up in the social and cultural answers, the class only changed when I changed the income/savings/housing answers. Is this what we are? Just consumers and wealth accumulators? Isn’t there much more to life than just money? I know it’s a silly question and it risks of going down the road of stale rhetoric, but if such are the tools used to define a society, then I think the Real social science has gone down the drain. Pointless, pointless tool.
You said it all: dignity and liberty!
Thank you, Frizz, for this post 😀
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thank you, Sara, for:
“the class only changed
when I changed the income/savings/housing answers.
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Is this what we are?
Just consumers and wealth accumulators?
Isn’t there much more to life than just money?”
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I like your question no. 5:
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List 5 objects you would take with you
if you had to pack and leave right now:
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1 – paper blank notebook, moleskine etc.
2 – ultra-light acer notebook with internet stick
3 – my guitar
4 – pocket-camera
5 – book: Adorno, Minima Moralia
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The things that are most important to me cannot be bought. Social class is not a factor in this.
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they’re just clothes. They cover our body, keep us warm, shield us from the sun or the wind. Why do many have to put so much importance to them?
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