In the conversations I've had with members of this American middle class, I've been privy to another reality behind their seemingly affluent facades.
It's neither industrial, nor post-industrial, seemingly affluent yet defiantly working class, quasi-rural in its locale yet metropolitan in its make-up.
The man, who seems to be a veteran and is played by Edwin Hodge, is being pursued by an armed gang of seemingly affluent, sadistic young white couples wearing creepo masks, led by a polite prep school type (played by Rhys Wakefield) who demands the Sandins give up the vet for "purging" or the weirdos will bust in and kill everyone inside.
Seemingly modern affluent lifestyles are placing us increasingly in static, artificial, microenvironments very different from the conditions prevailed for most part of our evolution and shaped our organisms.
For this reason, Edward Yang's expansive film about an affluent, seemingly contented middle-class family in Taiwan, A One and a Two, will provide a welcome shock of recognition for many British moviegoers.
Hae Joo, who comes from an affluent family, seemingly has the easiest time of it.
Hye Joo, who comes from an affluent family, seemingly has the easiest time of it.
There are few communities in America as fortunate and seemingly sheltered as this affluent, green slice of Connecticut suburbia.
In affluent America, seemingly out of nowhere, material insecurity has undermined assurance, and familiar structures of order have tumbled with the indexes.
From the vantage of my taxi, the city looked unmistakably African, with parts lifted directly out of Maputo, Mozambique, or Kinshasa, Congo, but well ordered and affluent and seemingly lacking any of the pockmarks of African poverty or war.
Why were all these people, who were smart and affluent and seemingly conscientious, not donating their money or time to causes that need help?
