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assume they can control their destinies. In the other, some people embrace the now common 
motto: “It don’t make no difference.”
Widening class distances produce class prejudice, classism. This is prejudice based on visceral 
attitudes about competence. People in “respectable” class have meritocratic virtues. View about 
those in untouchable world is that they are short on these things. They are disorganized. They are 
violent and scary. This belief has some grains of truth because of childhood trauma, stress of pov-
erty and other things. But this view metastasizes into vicious, intellectually lazy stereotype. Before 
long, animalistic imagery is used to describe these human beings.
This class prejudice is applied to both white and black poor, whose demographic traits are converg-
ing. But classism combines with latent and historic racism to create particularly malicious brew. People 
are now assigned a whole range of supposedly underclass traits based on single glimpse at skin color.
During civil-rights era, there was always debate about what was civil-rights issue and what was 
economic or social issue. Now that distinction has been obliterated. Every civil-rights issue is also 
economic and social issue. Classism intertwines with racism.
Ex. 34. Use the verbs in parentheses in the correct tense and voice form.
Unlike the French case, in which the escalation of anti-Jewish violence (to follow)
1
the rhythms 
of Middle East politics, anti-Semitic incidents in Germany (to be)
2
a regular feature of everyday life 
since reunification. Their rise first (to become)
3
manifest amidst the wave of xenophobic and racist 
violence which (to sweep)
4
across Germany in the early 1990s and which since that time barely