 that meant long hours. Neither of them went to college they came to this country as immigrants at a fairly young age so after they finished high school they were expected to work right away so they could help their parents who couldn’t really speak English out with the rent and other expenses.
They knew the struggle of coming into a new country as immigrants and starting from the bottom as “lower class” so they didn’t want their kids to experience that too. My parents tried to instill the idea that if you don’t want to struggle the way they did it was crucial that we finished high school with high grades went on to college and get a good job that has a higher salary. Preferably a doctor or lawyer just like all other immigrant parent who think that doctor and lawyers are the epitome of social class and wealth.
I can see why we use social stratification, All work positions can’t be treated as equal since some of these require more qualifications, experience and training But other jobs don’t have any qualifications so we cannot give equal status to an engineer and a manual labourer. If we do nobody would want to go through the expensive and lengthy engineering degree and training because at the end you will be making the same amount as someone who didn’t do all of that. An element of competition is important because without competition people can’t grow competition makes people want to achieve higher goals. Social stratification creates a situation of competition and encourages the people for improvement and progress.
In conclusion social stratification is an integral part of our society where people are put into groups on account of how much money they make or what kind of job title they hold. Social class is also determined by what class your parents were in and you kind of start from there and either grow or decline from there. It is a system in which stratification is done on the basis of merit. Even though every society has social ranks it’s not necessarily the same middle-class in a poor country could mean being lower class in a rich country.
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Nice upgrade. Is this a Japanese tit for the Chinese tat on the railways?
How are trains from the 1980's an upgrade? These are diesel and the SRT said it was moving to clean energy fuels. Japan Railroad Hokkaido is in effect finding someone to take its worn out equipment. Thailand is paying for the waste disposal of JR.
The band’s frontman Chino Moreno talks Download Festival, their new album and the unreleased Eros.
Deftones are returning to Australia once again for Download Festival and Chino Moreno couldn’t be more excited.
It’s the fifth time the Sacramento quintet will have played the festival, including its inaugural year in the UK in 2003, long before the festival arrived in Australia in 2018. Speaking from his Los Angeles home, Moreno is upbeat about the prospect of returning.
“Festivals in general are always exciting. You get to see a lot of different bands and a lot of different vibes. You get a little taste of different flavours. Whether you’re attending it or playing it I think it’s just an event that’s special and when you’re done with it they’re fond memories that you carry with you for years to come.
Moreno quickly proves his claim when asked about the Vans Warped Tour in 1999, a festival which had famously brought the likes of Pennywise, 311, and Blink-182 to places like Byron Bay, Coffs Harbour and Ulladulla the year before.
“Hell yeah!” Moreno exclaims. “Hell yeah, I remember that.
Download punters will get to hear tracks from those early days, possibly all the way through to the band’s latest, yet-to-be-released album.
It’ll be a rare insight into the new material, but fans should expect it to continue to push the boundaries of Deftones’ sound.
Moreno told Kerrang! last year that the record would be more experimental, along the lines of 2000’s White Pony. Whatever it is, it’s fresh enough to have the veteran singer-songwriter animated.
“We’re just mixing it now and it’s brilliant. I’ve just been listening to it in my truck and it’s exciting. I’m a little jaded by a lot of stuff. I try and find the faults in a lot of stuff. [With this] I can’t find things that feel tired or just rehashed. To me, it sounds fresh and it sounds a little more upbeat than our last record and I think that’s a good thing.
The new record isn’t the only album fans have been clamouring for, however. Deftones abandoned work on Eros in 2008 when bassist Chi Cheng fell into a coma after a car accident. Cheng died five years later as a result of his injuries and the record has become something of a Holy Grail for fans.
“The thing about it is: there’s so much mystery surrounding it, right? People probably imagine that it’s like this lost gem of like the most awesome Deftones songs ever. And the reality of it is: there’s some cool stuff on there, there’s some stuff that’s okay, it could be really cool, it would have been awesome if we’d have finished it.
It’s obviously a subject which gets broached a lot, as evidenced by the lengthy fan-made YouTube videos dedicated to piecing together quotes, Instagram posts, and supposed bar-room conversations with band members. And while he won’t rule it out, Moreno is conscious of the practical realities of digging into ideas which are over a decade old.
“In order to do that it would be us abandoning anything we’re working on in the present and go back and open those files and teach [current bassist] Sergio everything that Chi did. I would have to write a bunch of lyrics over songs that are now probably 12 years old or something.
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Tropical corals are famous for their captivating colors thanks to microscopic algae inhabitants. Glowing, on the other hand, is not standard fare for tropical reefs.
Glowing corals in New Caledonia surrounded by bleached, white corals.
The 2017 documentary Chasing Coral stumbled upon glowing coral reefs by accident.
The documentary follows a team of researchers and underwater photographers intent on getting footage of coral bleaching - when corals turn bright white due to stress. An underwater heatwave was expected at New Caledonia and Australia’s Lizard Island, with coral bleaching likely to follow.
The Chasing Coral team installed high-tech cameras on the ocean floor in the hopes of capturing the event. When the cameras failed, the team opted to manually photograph the reefs daily.
Instead of capturing the corals bleaching, however, the team found the New Caledonia corals glowing.
This ‘glowing coral’ phenomenon has been documented by scientists since the 1990s when fluorescent corals were spotted off of French Polynesia’s Society Islands. During both the coral glowing events of the 1990s and the glowing documented by Chasing Coral the unusual phenomenon was linked to an underwater heatwave.
Corals are sensitive to small changes in temperature. Just a 1°C increase in water temperature can cause corals to kick-out their microscopic algal inhabitants, zooxanthellae. Without zooxanthellae, corals are rendered colorless, or ‘bleached’. If a coral bleaches more than once in just a couple of years, there’s a good chance it will die soon after.
The vibrant, fluorescent glow, like that shown in Chasing Coral, is only known to occur after a coral bleaching event. Yet the reason only certain corals ‘glow’, and why these corals only glow after certain bleaching events, is still under investigation by scientists.
Research led by Dr. Elena Bollati at the United Kingdom’s Coral Reef Laboratory in Southampton suggests a reason for the coral glow: sunscreen. Her team’s research, which was recently published in the journal Current Biology, shows that corals may glow to invite their zooxanthellae back home.
Zooxanthellae provide corals with between 50 and 80% of their daily nutrition, making the loss of zooxanthellae devastating for coral health. After bleaching, tropical corals must re-acquire their zooxanthellae to survive.
However, the zooxanthellae themselves are light-sensitive, making the bright, white skeleton of a bleached coral inhospitable. Instead, researchers suspect some corals may ‘glow’ as a form of sunscreen to help the zooxanthellae return. In other words, Dr. Bollati’s research suggests that the glowing is not triggered by the bleaching directly, but instead by the increase in light exposure experienced by bleached corals. This discovery