smart set
Polish translation: doborowe towarzystwo / doborowy zestaw towarzyski
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elegancki świat / wytworne towarzystwo Explanation: śmietanka towarzyska, eleganckie towarzystwo, |
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z Mądralińskimi Explanation: propozycja :) |
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elita Explanation: propozycja; smart set - the fashionable elite |
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"wielki świat" Explanation: inna propozycja |
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doborowe towarzystwo / doborowy zestaw towarzyski Explanation: http://megaslownik.pl/slownik/synonimy_antonimy/3574,doborow... http://www.sjp.pl/co/doborowy http://www.google.pl/search?hl=pl&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE... |
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tu: nasza sfera Explanation: dałbym tak, w sumie oddaje snobizm |
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| Reference Reference information: Mr. William Archer, in an article in the July, 1914, Fortnightly Review, describes the famous Yacht Club of Bombay, the social center of official European life in the city, and says: "No one of Indian birth except the servants, not even the Rajput princes or the Parsee millionaire may set foot across its threshold. It is the same with the Byculla Club; indeed, every club in India practically follows this model and makes itself a little England representing exactly the interests, the comforts and the vulgarities of an English Club." He further comments: "Such a drawing of the color line is of course inexpressibly galling to a proud and sensitive people, who see their rulers, when the business of 'running the country is over, withdraw into impregnable caste-strongholds." The following is declared an actual occurrence: An Indian Prince, the ruler of a Native State in India, visits England and by invitation dines with the King in the Buckingham Palace. He returns to India and finds himself not allowed to enter any English Club in Calcutta, Bombay, or any other leading city. Says the editor of an Indian religious weekly: "Aside from the missionaries and the army the one meeting place of the British in this country, is the European Club of the neighborhood, the members of which form the most arrogant and exclusive body to be found. Those who know at first hand the types of people who constitute the members of these arrogant associations are tempted to say that with them an unblushing assumption of race-superiority takes the place of religion, club life is with them a substitute for church life, and their one aim is exploitation of the country and enrichment of themselves. The European clubs with this smart set are the most anti-Indian and reactionary bodies in the whole of India." http://www.hinduwisdom.info/European_Imperialism10.htm |
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