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From: fred@mnetor.UUCP (Fred Williams)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: AA/Quota's, etc, why I don't like them...
Message-ID: <1427@mnetor.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 22-Jul-85 09:42:59 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 22 09:42:59 1985
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Reply-To: fred@mnetor.UUCP (Fred Williams)
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Summary: 

In article <489@mmintl.UUCP> franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams) writes:
>
>In article <243@ubvax.UUCP> tonyw@ubvax.UUCP (Tony Wuersch) writes:
>
>>I think what I said was that improving education (i.e. giving everyone
>>a better education) would not change who gets the good careers and
>>who gets the bad ones.  This is because better parental background
>>reflects itself as more educational success which translates into
>>better careers.
>
>I find it interesting that no one has seen fit to examine what seems to
>me to be the fundamental underlying problem with this argument.  That is
>the assumption that the parents' JOB is the relevant factor.  It seems
>to me that the parents' attitudes and culture are the more relevant
>variable.

    	It may or may not be relevant, but J. Molloy writes in his
book, "Live for Success", that people who give off upper-middle-class
body signals & use the appropriate speech pattern are much more likely
to get a job offer than those who don't. The background of the person
making the decision has little or no influence on the outcome.
	I have no connection with Mr. Molloy, or his book, other than
having bought two of the books.

Cheers,		Fred Williams