25 cases of beer, 30 packs of premium ribs, and an unnecessary amount of potato chips and a seemingly endless assault of demeaning glares. This scene has colored Daniel Han Tae Choi PO ’28 experience as cashier at a local asian grocery store over the past couple years. Hours of bagging, and simple refusal from customers to help has reminded him of the way that the American dream has morphed to paint unskilled laborers as a cautionary tale instead of an essential group of people that make our country function. Choi argues that the very least we can do is say hello, bag a couple groceries and treat the workers who keep our society working as our equals.
Tag: Classism
OPINION: Hating Country Music is Un-American
Tired of listening to pop? Lisa Gorelik CM ’25 puts on her cowboy boots to call for people to change their minds about country music. Tracing back country to its roots in Appalachia and breaking down common stereotypes, Gorelik explains why the genre is for everyone and how its landscape is more dynamic than most think.
Let’s spill the pop culture tea: ‘The White Lotus’ comments on colonialism, virtue signaling, emptiness
“The White Lotus” is a striking representation of the privilege present in the tourism industy, pop culture columnist Anna Tolkien CM ’24 argues.
OPINION: Grammar upholds an oppressive system
The concept of good grammar perpetuates xenophobic, racist, and classist ideas of what makes someone intelligent.
OPINION: Why do you really hate country music?
Country music isn’t objectively better or worse than any other genre. The best thing we can all do is to keep an open mind and listen to more music.
Scene one, hot take one: Bong Joon-ho’s masterpiece ‘Parasite’ spotlights rise of lower class
Film columnist Ben Hafetz PZ ’20 reviews “Parasite,” the winner of the 2019 Sundance Palme d’Or and the film that has put director Bong Joon-ho in the limelight. “‘Parasite’ will be looked upon as a decade-defining film. Whether it be the camera, set design, themes, details, story, characters or gut-punch of an ending, it succeeds on every level,” he writes.
OPINION: We need to cancel ‘cancel culture’
Cancel culture doesn’t solve any problems. Ignorace should be approached with education, not rejection from a community.
Money Matters Week supports first-gen, low-income students
The fourth annual Money Matters Week was organized by the FLI at Pomona College, and highlights how the 5Cs engage in classist activities.