as someone who grew up and completed my education outside the USA the American obsession with the going’s-on at a half dozen educational institutions remains mystifying and dizzying, it’s like a diagnosable mania
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Yes and Jeet needs to re-read JFK's Jokes to the Robber Barons in the 1962 Yale Commencement Speech. Jeet's classy Nation Editorial Board finds the Indonesian, Congo and Vietnam results low class.
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I get this (from all places) listening to the Howard Stern show over the years; there is an unusual fixation on those institutions, etc.
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In Canada that class stratification is pushed down to the secondary level. There are definitely failure-proof elite networks involving UCC, Appleby, UTS, etc. that keep the vertical mosaic aloft in the private sector. University far less so -- you still need to do well there
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Not so much here in Canada, which is a good thing.
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Only to the people who went to those institutions. The rest of us normies are blissfully unaware.
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