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It simply means that what is acquired by parents in their physique and intellect is not inherited by their children.
What is suggested here is that the allegory is anti-poetical, and that what is acquired with toil is mostly toil.
What is inherited — family, community, culture, language — is more crucial than what is acquired — tattoos, an Armani suit, a cat who loves you.
It is a novel about two generations of the Ganguli family, and at the same time it is a novel about exile and its discontents, a novel that is as affecting in its Chekhovian exploration of fathers and sons, parents and children, as it is resonant in its exploration of what is acquired and lost by immigrants and their children in pursuit of the American Dream.
The difference is between what is not acquired and what is acquired; but we find no distinction — as in Plato — between what is acquired by teaching and what is acquired by training.
Acquisition is beneficial so long as what is acquired is put to constructive use and not just hoarded.
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No one is talking about who is moving to what design house or who is acquiring what label or who is marrying, bedding or backstabbing whom.
And once that data is acquired, what can they do with it?
What if the company is acquired by another company?
Situations determine what part of the external world are in the current context, and situations influence interaction and so influence what and how common ground is acquired.
Much of what passes for common knowledge is acquired from others.
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