" I think mostly that it's really easy to paint etiquette and manners as tools for elitism, tools for secrecy, tools for exclusion, " said Lizzie Post.
A recent commentary by the official corruption watchdog, published on February 23rd, orders financiers to smash " financial elitism, worship of wealth and reverence for the West" .
If your food choices ensure that a farmer can pay his bills, feed his family, send his kids to college and have a farm to leave them, that is not elitism.
" In the 1980s, the title of college student itself equated the definition of 'elite'. Today, higher education becomes another round of elitism sorting, " pointed out by Jingjing Xu in an Sanlian Lifeweek article.