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Was bedeutet forcing them to submit to a procedure widely identified with criminals ?
Was bedeutet forcing them to submit to a procedure widely identified with criminals ?
Could you explain this sentence in a flat way?
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1 Aug 2020
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- Englisch (US)
In Canada and the U.S., usually only two sets of people « get fingerprinted, » I.e., have to let someone make a record of their fingerprints. Those are (1) people who have been arrested and are suspected or accused of having committed a crime, and (2) people who apply for a security clearance or jobs requiring a clearance or a “background investigation” (which itself checks on, among other things, whether the person has an arrest or criminal record). So having to be fingerprinted is connected with the idea of being a criminal (or accused of being a criminal). So fingerprinting is associated mentally with, is identified with — connected closely in people’s thinking — with criminals (with being accused of being a crimjnal; with being identified as someone suspicious who needs to be tracked.
As for “identified with,” I tried to give some near synonyms or rephrasing already. Hanzi are identified with China; hiragana are identified with Japan; having a tattoo may be identified with being a criminal in Japan; wearing scrubs may be identified with being (thought to be evidence that one is) a doctor or nurse in a hospital, etc.
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- Englisch (US)
Fingerprints are used to identify criminals by policemen.
It means that the fingerprint plan would most likely make people uncomfortable by tracking their fingerprints, because tracking fingerprints is associated with the police tracking criminals.
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- Vereinfachtes Chinesisch (China)
@maralyssas i'm confused by the grammar of 'identifed with criminals', especially the preposition 'with'.
- Englisch (US)
It’s a little confusing in English too.
The preposition “with” (the full phrase used being “identified with”) is used in this context to show that tracking fingerprints makes people think of criminals
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In Canada and the U.S., usually only two sets of people « get fingerprinted, » I.e., have to let someone make a record of their fingerprints. Those are (1) people who have been arrested and are suspected or accused of having committed a crime, and (2) people who apply for a security clearance or jobs requiring a clearance or a “background investigation” (which itself checks on, among other things, whether the person has an arrest or criminal record). So having to be fingerprinted is connected with the idea of being a criminal (or accused of being a criminal). So fingerprinting is associated mentally with, is identified with — connected closely in people’s thinking — with criminals (with being accused of being a crimjnal; with being identified as someone suspicious who needs to be tracked.
As for “identified with,” I tried to give some near synonyms or rephrasing already. Hanzi are identified with China; hiragana are identified with Japan; having a tattoo may be identified with being a criminal in Japan; wearing scrubs may be identified with being (thought to be evidence that one is) a doctor or nurse in a hospital, etc.
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