l'ours que personne n'a remarqué

English translation: elephant in the room

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French term or phrase:	l\'ours que personne n\'a remarqué
English translation:	elephant in the room
Entered by:	Angie Taylor

11:40 Mar 13, 2013

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French term or phrase: l'ours que personne n'a remarqué

Text about American students being wealthier than the average American family, i.e. only the wealthiest can afford to go to university.

"L’inégalité économique est l’ours que personne n’a remarqué."

I thought of elephant in the room, but that's something everyone can see but nobody wants to discuss, whereas this is something people don't seem to have noticed.

Thanks

Angie Taylor KudoZ activity Questions: 102 (4 open) (1 without valid answers) (1 closed without grading) Answers: 50 United Kingdom
Local time: 02:36

elephant in the room

Explanation:
this is what it sounds like to me.

Selected response from:

NancyLynn
Canada
Local time: 21:36

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Thanks for confirming my suspicions
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

1 +12

elephant in the room

NancyLynn

3 +1

was staring everyone in the face

SafeTex

Summary of reference entries provided

more context

Daryo

Discussion entries: 5

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22 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +12

l'ours que personne n'a remarque

elephant in the room

Explanation:
this is what it sounds like to me.

NancyLynn
Canada
Local time: 21:36
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 12

Grading comment

Thanks for confirming my suspicions

1 hr confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

l'ours que personne n'a remarque was staring everyone in the face

Explanation:
Difficult cos the definition of this term is 'obvious, evident' which is not exactly what you ask for.

But the evidence was always there, just like the elephant in the room.

The expression does mean (for me) , that although sm was evident, it was NOT immediately perceived

Reference: http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/american/stare-s...

SafeTex
France
Local time: 03:36
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English

Reference comments

1 day 2 hrs

Reference: more context

Reference information:
"...
Walter Benn Michaels, Auteur et Professeur de littérature à l’Université de l’Illinois à Chicago :
Diversité, le cache-misère d’un système économique inégalitaire ? Dans les années 70, les universités américaines comptaient 92 % d’étudiants et 95 % de professeurs blancs. Les choses ont changé. Aujourd’hui, 70 % des étudiants sont blancs, ce qui correspond proportionnellement à la population du pays. À cette même époque, les étudiants américains étaient environ 40 % plus riches que la famille moyenne. Aujourd’hui, ce sont les plus riches qui vont à l’université, puisque 60 % des étudiants sont plus riches que la famille moyenne. L’inégalité économique est l’ours que personne n’a remarqué. Durant les 40 dernières années, la société américaine s’est focalisée sur la diversité. Nous vivons la diversité. Mais alors que nous vivons la diversité, nous vivons également l’inégalité. Beaucoup de gens ressentent cette crise liée aux inégalités. Or, cette crise est profonde et il est peu probable d’améliorer les choses en disant que la solution à l’inégalité se trouve dans la diversité...."

[http://www.21eme-siecle.org/media/1212/Actes_du_FED.pdf]

Daryo
United Kingdom
Native speaker of:

Serbian,

French

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