Aashwinshanker

A curious question.

We consider a newspaper reader as educated. Someone with high societal standards but why do see an hawker as inferior?

Please give your views as I’m not able to draw any conclusion to this perception of the society.

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  3. I don’t understand this conception either. What does an educated reader have more than a street vendor? Nothing, absolutely nothing: as I always say “It is not a piece of paper that makes the person”. One must always look at other things about a person and not evaluate them as much as they could or could not study, if they are rich or poor, etc. I believe that kindness, selflessness, good feelings, etc. are much much more important.

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  4. I don’t know about the newspaper readers, but the writers are not that intelligent, nor do they necessarily hold high societal standards.

    A local B.C. community newspaper, The Surrey Now-Leader, printed just before Earth Day 2017, titled “Earth Day in need of a facelift”. Varied lengths of the same editorial was also run by other community newspapers, all owned by the same news-media mogul, who’s also an aspiring oil refiner. It opined that “some people would argue that [the day of environmental action] … is an anachronism”, that it should instead be a day of recognizing what we’ve societally accomplished. “And while it [has] served us well, in 2017, do we really need Earth Day anymore?”
    I’ve never heard anyone, let alone a mainstream news outlet, suggest we’re doing so well as to render Earth Day an unnecessary “anachronism”. Considering the sorry state of the planet’s natural environment, I found it one of the most irresponsible acts of editorial journalism I’d witnessed in my 33 years of news-media consumption.

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    • That would be considered as an exception. One out of a million writer. Still most of that writer’s readers will agree with him. But any newspaper hawker, servant of the house is inferior even if they have an educational qualification better than their masters.

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      • Thank you for replying.

        I would say a bit more than one out of a million newspaper writers. In Canada, we have a near-monopoly corporate news-media (i.e. Postmedia’s ownership/control of all-except-one major print publications) who are formally allied with one of the planet’s greatest polluting solid forms of “energy” and the most polluting form of crude oil — bitumen crude oil, a.k.a. tarsands.

        Although the newspaper giant’s apparent bedding with the powerful industry is not news and was downplayed by Postmedia itself, it’s little known amongst the general population. More so, should the promotion of massive fossil fuel extraction, even Canada’s own, at all be a partisan position for a newspaper giant to take? And, at least in this case, whatever happened to journalism’s role of ‘afflicting the comfortable’ (which goes along with ‘comforting the afflicted’), especially one of this scale of environmental monstrosity?

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      • Well you should be happy to read that newspaper readership is declining and as to the monopoly is concerned you can not always blame the journalist because they willingly or unwillingly need to agree with their investors even if it is not in the interests of common people.

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  5. I believe in the saying
    Be the change you want to see in the world.

    Everyone who wants to bring a change have the potential to influence others. Influencing other people in this regard is absolutely useful and is a necessity, don’t you think?

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  6. I think it is the social stratification which leads to all the mess and this needs to change for sure …We need to judge a person not by his occupation but by the other qualities he or she might possess because that’s what matters at the end of the day ….

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  8. Historically in the UK, the common concensus was that you were judged by what type of newspaper you bought. The Upper classes purchased The Times or the DailyTelegraph while The Guardian, Express and Mail were seen to be Middle classed ‘reads’.
    The working class would buy the Sun, Star or Mirror. This is still evident in today’s society.

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    • Well it’s the same everywhere and the norms of the society is not very different in India. It’s very similar to that of U.K. Both had monarchs, both are proud of their colonial past. People here too are judged by which publication they read.

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  10. Well, the age old perspectives are not being followed by people currently. Very unfortunate to see that people being judged or treated only by the good looks. May not be all but the most in the society.

    But true recognition is always for the good work. This difference may the the quite answer to your question out there Aashwin. I know my view is from both, your post n comment section 🙂

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  11. Respect for all the professions. Even a sweeper who is sweeping the streets deserve respect. And let me come to the basic. All these good manners/behaviour as how to treat soceity members depend on your upbringing at home.

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