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Pro. Eu worries that rich young students, living in the right end of M-shaped society, living in a easy and comfort, don’t have identification with and understanding of the disadvantaged minority, and lack compassion for the other end people’s suffering, situation, feelings, and motives.

Mister Micawber · Accepted Answer

contiluoPro. Eu

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contiluo M-shaped society

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Contiluo · Answer

There is another paragraph prior to this one. It is as written.

Eu Sen-Peng, a professor of Department of Applied Mathematics at University of Kaohsiung, has the similar worry. Pro. Eu had been teaching at Mathematics & Science gifted class. According his observations, the students in the gifted class may be very intelligent and get excellent in their studies. Most of them are from wealthy families and always considerate, kindhearted.

However, Pro. Eu worries that these rich students, living in easy and comfort, don't have identification with and understanding of the poverty-stricken area people. They lack compassion for the disadvantage minority which is in the extremely poor end of M-shaped society.

Mister Micawber · Answer

Then it should read Prof. Eu. What is 'M-shaped'?

Contiluo · Answer

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

M-shaped Society is a term coined by the Japanese economist and corporate strategist Kenichi Ohmae (1943–). According to his observation, Ohmae argued that the structure of Japanese society has emerged into a 'M-shape' distribution. It refers to a polarized society with the extreme rich and the extreme poor.

In a well-developed modern society, the distribution of classes is in a 'normal distribution' pattern, and the middle class forms the bulk of the society.

However, in the emergence of the 'M-shape society', the middle class in a society gradually disappears. With the advance and consequence of globalization (for good or bad), the middle class is gradually assimilated into either side. The bulk of society is no longer the middle classes. The name is derived when you chart the class distribution a distinct M-shape is formed to denote the two extremes, with the middle class gradually shrinking and disappearing. Very few people in this middle class may be able to climb up the ladder and be able to be part of the upper class, while most from the middle class will gradually sink to the lower-income group.

What is worse, the upward social ladder seems to have disappeared – opportunities and fair competition become fewer and fewer. People in the lower class can no longer climb up the ladder: they cannot earn a high-paid job or have stable employment, even if they have a high level of education.

Mister Micawber · Answer

Very interesting, contiluo! Thank you. I am on the left hump of the M.

Prof./Professor Eu worries that rich young students, living in the right end of an/the (You still haven't shown enough text for me to discover whether the term has been mentioned before.) M-shaped society, living in ease and comfort, cannot identify with or understand the disadvantaged minority, and lack compassion for the other end’s condition.

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