In my opinion, aesthetic taste is a prominent form of cultural capital. In contemporary society, cosmetics, pop cultures, and fashion industries are intertwined with aesthetic taste. However, many individuals and culture-sharing groups have limited opportunities to develop aesthetic tastes due to various socio-economic and socio-cultural factors. These structural problems or cultural knowledge gaps should be minimized.

I agree with Benjamin H. Nam, and add that aesthetic taste as the ability to exercise aesthetic judgement, is mediated by education and training. In much of western, democratic society, educational curricula downplay the aesthetics of things in favour of science and empiricism. I believe, as a society, we neglect our ability to exercise aesthetic judgement to our detriment.

When it comes to 'aesthetic' education, I can think of elite art education. In the given competitive nature of elite education, students from relatively wealthy families could go experience quality art programs ever since they were little. They strive for cultivating aesthetic capital, design capital, and once they obtain college admissions from elite universities, they could have a chance to develop digital capital and prepare for their future career opportunities.

In practice, many non-Western nations recognize the significance of aesthetic or art education, and even physical and music education, and try to promote these courses in school curricular officially. Yet, many scholars, teachers, and parents may still raise some critical questions that not every class is excellent enough, keep pursuing private education beyond school education, namely put extra money on their children education.

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