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Paul Fussell

Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles.

Paul Fussell

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Paul Fussell is saying that Americans uniquely show their worry about social status by displaying their college or university names on their car windows. This behavior reflects a desire to prove their social standing through where they went to school.

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