Stuck With Labels
Montaigne said long ago that we ought not to judge men by the kinds of shirts they wear. But we are far more sophisticated than that. Not by shirt* only, but by accent*, educational backgrounds. examination qualifications. incomebrackets, occupations, do we separate man from man. Of course, we all believe that at bottom—wherever that may be—a man’s a man for a’ that: that is, so long as he is well-labelled about where he has come from and where he is going; so long as he has his credentials. We cannot feel really happy until we have everything labelled. . . . We are so stuck up with false labels as to miss real qualities of living, like one of those touring motorists whose windows and windscreens are so gummed up with ostentation that he cannot see where he is going.—Ronald Fletcher, lecturer in sociology, London University.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30342, 18 January 1964, Page 9
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146Stuck With Labels Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30342, 18 January 1964, Page 9
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