The horse and carriage is a thing of the past, but love and marriage are still with us and still closely interrelated. Most American marriages, particularly first marriages (21) young couples, are the result of (22) attraction and affection (23) than practical considerations.In the United States parents do not arrange marriages for their children. Teenagers begin (24) in high school and usually find mates through their own academic and social (25) . Thoughyoung people feel (26) to choose their friends from (27) groups, most choose a mate of similar background. This is (28) in part to parental guidance. Parents cannot select spouses for their children, but they can usually (29) choices by (30) disapproval of someone they consider unsuitable.(31) marriages between members of different groups (interclass, interfaith, and interracial marriages) are increasing, probably because of the greater (32) of today’s youth and the face that they are restricted by (33) prejudices than their parents. Many young people leave their home towns to attend college, (34) in the armed forces, (35) pursue a career in a bigger city. Once a- way from home and family, they are more (36) to date and marry outside their own social group. In mobile American society, interclass marriages are neither (37) nor shocking. Interfaith marriages are (38) be the rise particularly between Protestants and Catholics. On the other hand, interracial marriage is still very uncommon. It can be difficult for interracial couples to find a place to live, maintain friendships, andc (39) a family. Marriages between people of different national (40) (but the same race and religion) have been commonplace here since colonial times. 39().
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One of the principal of Walzer’s critique of liberal capitalism is that it is insufficiently egalitarian. Walzer’s case against the economic inequality generated by capitalism and in favor of "a radical redistribution of wealth" is presented in a widely cited essay entitled "In Defense of Equality."The most striking feature of Waizer’s critique is that, far from rejecting the principle of reward according to merit, Walzer insists, on its validity. People who excel should receive the superior benefits appropriate to their excellence. But people exhibit a great variety of qualities—" intelligence, physical strength, agility and grace, artistic creativity, mechanical skill, leadership, endurance, memory, psychological insight, tile capacity for hard work—even moral strength, sensitivity, the ability to express compassion". Each deserves its proper recompense, and hence a proper distribution of material goods should reflect human differences as measured on all these different scales. Yet, under capitalism, the ability to make money ("the green thumb of bourgeois society") enables its possessor to acquire almost "every other sort of social good" such as the respect and esteem of others.The centerpiece of Walzer’s argument is the invocation of a quotation from Pascal’s Pensees, which concludes: "Tyranny is the wish to obtain by one means what can only be had by another." Pascal believes that we owe different duties to different qualities. So we might say that infatuation is the proper response to charm, and awe the proper response to strength. In this light, Walzer characterizes capitalism as the tyranny of money (or of the ability to make it). And Walzer advocates as the means of eliminating this tyranny and of restoring genuine equality "the abolition of the power of money outside its sphere" . What Walzer envisions is a society in which wealth is no longer convertible into social goods with which it has no intrinsic connection. Walzer’s argument is a puzzling one.After all, why should those qualities unrelated to the production of material goods be rewarded with material goods Is it not tyrannical, in Pascal’s sense, to insist that those who excel in "sensitivity" or "the ability to express compassion" merit aqua] wealth with those who excel in qualities ( such as "the capacity for hard work" ) essential in producing wealthy Yet Waizer’s argument, how- ever deficient, does point out one of the most serious weaknesses of capitalism-that it brings pre- dominant positions to people who, no matter how legitimately they have earned their material re- wards, often lack those other qualities that evoke affection or admiration. Some even argue plausibly that this weakness may be irremediable: in any society that, like a capitalist society, seeks to be- come ever wealthier in material terms disproportionate rewards are bound to flow to the people who are instrumental in producing the increase in its wealth. The author write this passage mainly to().
A. introduce a new book.
B. introduce an author's new theory.
C. discuss a theory proposed by one other socialist.
D. criticize a author on his incomplete theory.