For the privileged Westerner, this tendency is reinforced by the protection of comfortable lifestyles far from the ravages that those on the front lines are living with right now.
It comes as no surprise that the less privileged would have stronger tendencies toward the illegal.
(For a brief corrective against the natural tendency to reserve a privileged position for health care here, see Marmot and Wilkinson 1999, ch. 1).
It is also important to note that no tendency for the intervention to target only subgroups of privileged or non-privileged women was found.
Given the possibly privileged status of rising F0 patterns, the slight rising tendency of the Thai high (45) tone may be important (see Fig. 4, which shows that the Thai high tone is predominantly assimilated to rising native tones by both the Cantonese and Mandarin groups).
It's an all-too-familiar anecdote the privileged wind up damaged and develop less-than-flattering tendencies.
In my teens and 20's, I went through a host of privileged girl problems: vacillating between promiscuity and anti-social tendencies, co-dependent relationships, substance "experimentation," perfection-striving and shoplifting for no reason.
As the possibility of a clear division between domestic and foreign affairs dissipates, the traditional tendency to picture the domestic arena as a privileged site for the realization of normative ideals and principles becomes problematic as well.
There's a widespread tendency to think that defending culture means defending privileged white people, but that assumes that people of color and poor people aren't artists.
Taking the regression results as a whole, rising tones appear to have a privileged position over the other tones, in that there is a greater tendency to map rising Thai tones to an equivalent tone (and possibly intonation class) than for equivalent matchings in the other tone classes.
