Aza Y. Alam
2 min readJul 6, 2024

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Yours is the kind of thought-provoking comment I really love Argumentative Penguin !

I don't write looking for praise and affirmation of my views (though. of course that's very very nice to receive) but rather a sharing of others experiences and points of view.

I think in that interplay of dialogue, we can all come out with an enhanced sense of our shared humanity as well as perhaps noticing things we had overlooked or were mostly outside of our experience.

I beleive we need to get away form binary dichotomising thinking - intersectionality (though I dislike the term) points to myriad systemic factors , combing to form the unique experiences. tht shape our childhood and mature years.

I actually paid a website to obtain more information about this woman. She was in th parental home, sold in 2016 for £650,000, following the death of the father. So presumably that was split 3 ways between the siblings .

There is a complex blending of so many factors... I agree that a lot depends on money and what you do with it, as you say... and a large part of the dynamic even comes down to your personal ways of responding to major disappointments or verbal abuse on the streets say - these are shaped a lot by ones' upbringing in the family of origin.

But I do see a sense of entitlement, evoking envy and rage in a lot of whyte people.

This is nothing new, as communal riots by whytes against Black American communities who were wealthy with well-established businesses, in the USA attest to, as long ago as the early 20th century.

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Aza Y. Alam
Aza Y. Alam

Written by Aza Y. Alam

Exploring the entanglements of gender, race and class during this era of the Eurokleptocene. Let’s do better, one story, one learning, one comment at a time.

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