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Re:In Defense of Amy Wax’s Defense of Bourgeois Values by stijnh on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @06:37PM (#15187700)
>Cultures like this may value things like "familial harmony" more than "individual prosperity".

In the article, it was stated that there is a relationship here. Children are much more likely to be successful in live if their parents were married.

>the author [..] would attribute everything bad in society to the decline in things she holds valuable. It's part of the definition.

No, that's just a strawman.

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Re:In Defense of Amy Wax’s Defense of Bourgeois Values by exelius on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @07:55PM (#15188088)
It's the definition of "successful" that I'm arguing against. It presupposes a lot about what the purpose of culture is/should be.
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