"Restaurants will pay them less just because of their birth status.
But irrespective of people's birth, status has gradually become more achievable.
In an early period, membership in a varna appears to have been based mainly on personal skills rather than birth, status, or wealth.
In 1958 the sociologist Michael Young in his Rise of the Meritocracy predicted a widening of higher education would mean that "irrespective of people's birth, status would gradually become more achievable".
Together, results illuminate how both mothers and infants participate in shaping and co-regulating their interactions through the use of touch and underscore the contribution of examining the influence of birth status on mutual touch.
It was finals week and we were in the library when I opened my dad's letter: "Preliminary inquiry into the birth status of your intended has revealed that he's an outcast of the slave genre".
"There was some discussion by an attorney pressing for further investigation of the birth status of President Obama, Brad Bryantthethe Kansas election director, wrote in an e-mail.
"It is the reporting of this news organization that Barack Obama is a citizen and he is not a Muslim," Mr. Smith said, touching on a subject — Mr. Obama's birth status — that has animated conspiratorial discussion in conservative circles, from relatively obscure far-right Web sites like Atlas Shrugs all the way up to the loudest mainstream conservative voice, Mr. Limbaugh.
And yet more than any other series on television, it has presciently captured the ugly nativist strain running on the edges of American life, the mentality that has led to false beliefs about the president's birth status and talk of denaturalizing "anchor babies".
I now realize that the reasons my fellowship was a perfect fit go way beyond my birth status and affinity with our volunteers.
Is not discrimination based on birth status a violation of the 14th amendment?
