After watching the video "People Like Us:Social Class in America" I really see how the wealthy look at the middle class and the poor people. My feeling kinda got hurt in a way because at one point in the video one man actually said theres no way to move up in class but according to the America dream everyone has a chance of moving up but thats not exactly true, yes you could get more money but would you get accepted by the rich is what make you a part of their class . In America they state its against the America people norms to speak or belong to a certain class but even if its against we all still belong to a class. Class in my opinion is just people opinions. I can't understand how you can look at a man clothing and deterimined his class. Class is manily base on looks, popularity,money and the size house you live in. There are all kind of measure of class in America. America is divided by class. As we move from life we seperate ourself from that people that we feel don't belong to our class. One of the speaker Joe Queenan said something very interested to me he said "A generation ago people will send their kids to private school because they didn't like black people now it they dont like poor people Its all about class. That statement alone shows how class played such a big part in society since day 1. I dont think people should have that right to look down on anybody because their not from the same class. In America the rich does rule, In society the upper rich is like still being in high school because you want to belong you want to be accepted.
In the article"Media Magic: Making Class Invisble by Gregory Mantsios he touch base on the influence the media on social class. Mantsios first speaks about the poor and how the media portrays the poor and how they do not exist,their underserving , and only have to blame themselves for their problems. When hes wrote about the wealthy he talks about how as a class the wealthy are generous yes there some wealthy people who are bad but its only a few. My opinion on this article is the media is so full of it I cant take it serious. I feel the media only informs Americans on what they want us to know not what we need to know.
The image you have above is a great example of how this society judges others who are below themselves. But one question I have is, if you were rich do you think you will have the same mind set? because you do say how you believe no one should be look down on. I do agree no one should, but sometimes we need to think in why they look down on, why they feel the need that they should look down on people. We as human beings say we do not look down on people because we are those people we aren't rich nor any close to being one. But now think of it, if we were rich would we still have those mind set? Yes, I do believe Media has a majority influence on our mind sets, because from my own view I will admit it, most of my friends want jordans why? because you see celebritys wearing them, and if they consider popular, then they want to be too. Just try to see yourself in other shoes, ask yourself will you still have the same mind set.
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