Olympian
Senior Member
- Joined
- Aug 14, 2008
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- Interested in Language
- Native Language
- Hindi
- Home Country
- India
- Current Location
- India
Hello,
I read the following in a Yahoo news story:
I take it to mean 'nothing has changed' or 'nothing changes', in this case referring to the way black people are (have been?) treated. But I don't understand why he says 'The more things change'. Does it refer to how everything else is changing except this (that is, inter-racial relations)?
Thank you
I read the following in a Yahoo news story:
“The more things change, the more they remain the same,” Jasper City Council Member Alton Scott said of the city's racial troubles.
I take it to mean 'nothing has changed' or 'nothing changes', in this case referring to the way black people are (have been?) treated. But I don't understand why he says 'The more things change'. Does it refer to how everything else is changing except this (that is, inter-racial relations)?
Thank you