He grew up in a working-class township on the outskirts of Rangoon, the son of a mechanic and a woman who sold spices from Thailand.
In Wyckoff, N.J., an upper-middle-class township in Bergen County with a population of 17,000, hundreds of people signed a petition in protest after the district replaced recess in 2007 with a "midday fitness" program.
Mr. Kunene has leapt into a life of fame and money, but often on Mondays he gets into one of his Porsches and makes the short drive to the poor and working-class township of Alexandra.
The 950 students at Beck Middle School in this middle-class township 12 miles southeast of Philadelphia, which supported Bill Clinton in 1992 and 1996 and George Bush in 1988, will cast their votes for president on Monday.
He was born in Woodbridge, a placid middle-class township of about 97,000 people, about 30 miles from Midtown Manhattan, and raised in the modest red-brick Cape Cod house, with the sprawling backyard, the same house his mother grew up in.
The main question this research paper attempts to answer is why only some of black middle-class township dwellers (black diamonds or BDs) do not relocate to former whites-only suburbs?
I was 'authentic' - as in 'really Scottish with a Scottish working-class accent' - but got invited to nice parties in big middle-class houses in Marchmont or Balerno in Edinburgh's extensive middle-class townships.
Briefly, data were drawn from 7 geographical district samples according to their unique dietary patterns of the residents, ancestral origins, geographic location, and degree of urbanization (Hakka people areas, mountainous areas, the East coast area, the Peng-Hu islands, metropolitan cities, urbanization Class I townships, and urbanization Class II townships).
The township middle classes put themselves in hock to buy cars more expensive than their houses.
Phyllis Spira, South Africa's most eminent ballerina, who won international renown during her three-decade career with the Capab Ballet and who, with her husband, Phillip Boyd, founded Dance for All to spread dance classes into the townships, died on Tuesday in Cape Town.
