I bike past this building every day I head up to school. It's got a very decorative vent cover. Hopkins has fancy vent covers as well. UNC-Chapel Hill, where I am getting my doctorate, does not have all of this pomp and circumstance surrounding their air vents. They get covered up by the typical horizontal flap vents like the one below.
This seems quite humorous to me. Such a mundane thing that has so much meaning. (At least I'm hypothesizing that it has this meaning...)
There are many other ways we signal class: hairstyles, the way we dress, organize our homes, the foods we eat, and the dialect we use.
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