People from other backgrounds may be just the right ingredient to perfect this difficult mix.
The lighthearted bit between Lin and Fields — a nod to their backgrounds — may be a surprise to some N.B.A. fans who have become used to less scholarly displays.
Graduates from these backgrounds may be encouraged by their parents to take up law, medicine or accounting, but PR is not a target sector and is often considered a difficult profession to enter.
Another possible explanation is that young people from disadvantaged backgrounds may be more resilient in the face of [stress factors] associated with a more challenging economic and school environment".
There is a risk that patients from poor socioeconomic backgrounds may be disproportionately disadvantaged by the resulting financial pressures, if they are unable to elbow their way towards ever scarcer NHS resources.
The implication that black and minority ethnic women and those from the poorest backgrounds may be some of the hardest hit by this problem is particularly significant in light of societal attitudes that stigmatise poor mothers.
But those mills have since closed, leaving the younger generation with no work, little chance of advancement in British society and a smoldering sense of resentment, justified or not, that their backgrounds may be holding them back.
Their backgrounds may be diverse, but the shared depth and detail of their personal histories makes their stories spill beyond the frames of the short works in which they appear.
