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托斯丹·凡勃伦：有闲阶级论·摘录 117
托斯丹·凡勃伦《有闲阶级论》· The Theory of the Leisure Class · 投资
This class difference in temperament may be due in part to a difference in the inheritance of acquired traits in the several classes, but it seems also, in some measure, to correspond with a difference in ethnic derivation. The class difference is in this respect visibly less in those countries whose population is relatively homogeneous, ethnically, than in the countries where there is a broader divergence between the ethnic elements that make up the several classes of the community. In the same connection it may be noted that the later accessions to the leisure class in the latter countries, in a general way, show less of the martial spirit than contemporary representatives of the aristocracy of the ancient line. These nouveaux arrivés have recently emerged from the commonplace body of the population and owe their emergence into the leisure class to the exercise of traits and propensities which are not to be classed as prowess in the ancient sense.
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定位：Excerpt 117 · 核对日期：2026-10-19 · 核验：短摘录
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阶级之间气质不同，部分原因可能是各阶级继承的后天特质不同，但似乎也跟族群来源有关。在人口族群比较单一的国家，这种阶级气质差异明显较小；而在各阶级由不同族群构成的国家，差异就更大。同样，在后一类国家，后来才进入有闲阶级的人，通常比古老贵族世家的当代代表更少尚武精神。这些新贵最近才从普通大众中冒出来，他们能进入有闲阶级，靠的是不算传统意义上“勇武”的特质和倾向。
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凡勃伦分析有闲阶级的族群构成，指出新加入者与老贵族在尚武精神上的差异。
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你所在的社会里，新富阶层与老贵族在价值观上有什么明显不同？
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