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Monday, July 21, 2008

What defines an elitist, a word slung around more these days than muck in a farm stall?

For instance, France is considered elite and Ireland is not even though recent political and economic history turns this argument on its head.

Wine is considered elite, and beer is not, though the advent of terrific craft beers and microbreweries has made drinking beer far more interesting.

Baseball  is the beloved sport  of  poets, novelists and pundits while football is considered the game of the common man yet most of us can't score tickets to NFL games.

Jazz is considered elite and country music is not, though it costs the same to appreciate either and it is entirely possible to appreciate both

How is that classical music is only considered elite in the United States and nowhere else?

Reading books on the bestseller list is not elite, but reading anything off is.

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About Karen Heller
This week Karen Heller is live-blogging the Republican convention in true blogger style - at home, surfing the Web and watching TV. She's covered five other conventions. Three were Republican, two were Democratic. Read all of Populist here.

Karen Heller has interviewed Philip Roth and Zsa Zsa Gabor, spent time with Pink and the Philadelphia Orchestra, the celebrated and the exemplary unsung. She's covered Miss America and political conventions. She's been a provocative voice at The Inquirer for nearly 20 years, garnering awards for criticism, feature writing and investigative reporting, and was a finalist for the 2001 Pulitzer Prize in commentary.