"Never let a baby and a child without an English name go to a kindergarten without a foreign teacher," a source of anxiety behind the so-called middle class disdain chain.To get rid of this anxiety, many parents have to define their new "identity" using consumer behavior.

Cram schools distinguish class from class, absurd but realistic

Recently, some media have reported a phenomenon in the name of "middle class" : some parents "will never allow their children to go to kindergartens without foreign teachers with children who have no English name and who watch pleasant goat"."It turns out that English is not only a basic skill, but also a standard for children to distinguish between different classes," one parent said.

This is the same as the last time some parents in chengdu "spent 40,000 yuan a year to send their children to a Chinese school class".It doesn't matter what you learn. What matters is the fact that you spend money on cram school itself.For some parents, it has become a mark of class division: I can spend money, I can spend it, it makes me different from you.

Many people are defining their "identity" through such consumption behavior.Those who attend private schools are more proud than public schools.Those who drive Mercedes can despise those who drive santana.Those who travel abroad despise those who go to Dali lijiang.Media to capture the children refused to haven't English name partners in the story, is a slightly more extreme cases, of course, but similar or more mild "contempt", but all the time.

This disdain is not so much a deliberate attempt to hurt someone as a subconscious act of striving to climb the ladder.

Chengdu competition district community, or the "children refused to play with no English name", reflect the anxiety in the field of education, some family has reached a quite serious degree.Topics such as education have become central issues in society and are themselves a sign of the visibility of these families.Neither the more elite (upper) nor the real lower classes are so anxious about their children's reading.

Some parents are used to perpetuating their lifelong rivalry to the next generation.Bind the child to himself in the hope that he will advance in his own class.They have to beat house prices and CPI, while children have to start sprinting at the starting line, typically "winning in the womb," as the report says.

In part, it also reflects parents' dissatisfaction and fear of their birth.

It's sad to see more and more news like this, but it's also the character of some newly affluent families.As a new group, it has always been "defined".Defined by the real estate agreement, by the car dealer, in a larger context, by the urbanization process.