Английский язык для специальных и академических целей: Международные отношения и зарубежное регионоведение. Часть 1 | страница 62
1. ... he has pulled off an astonishing triple.
2. At the age of 42, he is worth an estimated $2.4 billion. Way to go!
3. . an unequal contest between “the 1 percent” and the “47 percent” .
4. But what if that tradeoff no longer exists?
5. This ought to be grist for the mill for American conservatives.
6. . Republicans have flunked the challenge.
7. . the left favors the line, the right the ladder.
8. The American Dream has become a nightmare of social stasis.
9. . problems that used to be disproportionately associated with African-American communities are now endemic in the trailer parks and subprime slums inhabited by poor whites.
10. But to European eyes, this is also a familiar story of poverty traps created by well-intentioned welfare programs.
1. What does Elon Musk's story illustrate?
2. How is wealth distributed in the US?
3. Why are Americans more tolerant of inequality than Europeans?
4. Does inequality directly affect social mobility?
5. What, according to Niall Ferguson, is the difference between the “liberal” and the “conservative” approaches to tackling inequality?
6. How is the lack of social mobility in the American society nowadays illustrated in the book Coming Apart by Charles Murrey?
7. What, according to the article, are the major reasons for the declining social mobility in the US?
8. What do the data concerning Harvard enrollments indicate?
1. Why, in your view, is the article entitled The End of the American Dream?
2. Do you share Niall Ferguson's opinion about poverty traps created by welfare programmes?
3. How does this tally (согласуется) with the fact that the countries with the highest social mobility are Denmark, Norway, Finland, and Canada, i.e. welfare states?
4. What do you think might be the outcomes of the US becoming a less meritocratic society?
a) problems in the US education system today
b) modern American society
c) social mobility in the country whose language you study
VOCABULARY PRACTICE 2
