Thursday, May 5, 2011

Social class

In America people strive to become successful to make a large amount of money to support themselves or their families. In the beginning of this week I was well aware that there is different social classes within each community, however, I did not know it would be as divided as it is. There are so many different groups such as the low in poverty, the working class, the middle class, the middle upper class, and the rich or the upper class. If you want to move up this so called "scale" it is very hard and you really have to push yourself to do it. In the movie we were watching I was really shocked to see that the high school Anderson was kind of different from our high school.  In high school at Anderson one girl said, "If your not like us meaning not having the same amount of money or wear the same clothes, we won't associate ourselves with that group." Personally at our school I think certain clicks will not associate themselves with different clicks, but not because of money because of different factors. Although, I would say I am probably upper middle class, I still associate myself my people of different levels of social class. Some of my friends are more wealthier than me and some are a little lower financially than me. I do not care because I do not judge them based on how much money their families make. Although, my dad does have a friend that is very rich and has a lamborghini, while my dad and himself were walking to his car one day he kind of walked there like he was better than my dad trying to show off his new lamborghini, while my dad was not impressed by his rudness he decided he doesn't want to be friends with someone like that. Today they still talk once and a while but they never hang out anymore because my dad knows that he likes to show off what he has.

1 comment:

  1. great post. its very good and well rounded of you to have friends in all different classes regardless of their status.

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