And if you're worried about class divisions and economic inequality, wouldn't both be milder if we got credential inflation under control?

如果你也担心阶级分化和经济不平等，那么控制住学历膨胀，难道不会缓和一些吗？

The old class divisions had begun to break down.

【division】古老的阶级分化开始消失了。

For a period there was a kind of linguistic class division, where the lower classes spoke English and the upper classes spoke French.

有一段时间，有一种语言阶级划分，下层阶级讲英语，上层阶级讲法语。

Bolivar realized that the only way to overcome the various class divisions (like the one between the Caracas creoles and Llaneros) was to appeal to a common sense of South American-ness.

玻利瓦尔意识到，克服各种阶级分化（如加拉加斯克里奥尔人和拉内罗斯人之间的阶级分化）的唯一方法是诉诸南美人的常识。