Making them attached?

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Hi! everyone.Could you rephrase the coloured line? I could not understand what they are attaching to their classes and what does it mean?Context-The feudal class has been ruling the country through parliamnet and has been crushing the population except the industrial lords , rich merchants , powerful civil servants and military commanders who themselves have ethnic outlooks making them attached to their classes.Thanks!

Avangi · Accepted Answer

silak12except the industrial lords , rich merchants , powerful civil servants and military commanders who themselves have ethnic outlooks making them attached to their classes.

The meaning is not exactly clear to me.
The author seems to be talking about several different classes.
At first he contrasts the feudal class with the population as a whole.
Then he excludes specific powerful groups, suggesting that each of them comprises a special class, to which they are bound by their "outlooks." (He uses "classes" in the plural.)
It seems strange to describe these outlooks as "ethnic" without further context. (Only the workers are excluded.)

silak12 I could not understand what they are attaching to their classes

They are attaching themselves to their respective classes. Rather, their ethnicity attaches them to their respective classes.
Surely these powerful groups are not all of separate ethnicities.

I can't rephrase it, because it makes no sense to me.
Perhaps he believes that the powerful people are of one ethnicity, and the workers are of another. But that's not what he's saying.

Silak12 · Answer

Avangi, suggesting that each of them comprises a special class, to which they are bound by their "outlooks."

So, is "a special class" here mean the particular ethnic group to which each of these powerful people belong and to which their ethnic outlooks bind them.

Avangi · Answer

silak12So, is "a special class" here mean the particular ethnic group to which each of these powerful people belong and to which their ethnic outlooks bind them.

That is the way I take it,
but it doesn't make sense to me that "industrial lords, rich merchants, powerful civil servants and military commanders" would belong to separate ethnic groups, or would have differing "ethnic outlooks."
These are all powerful people, and I should think they'd be closely allied with the ruling class.
What is the ethnicity of the "population" which is being crushed?

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