Rags to Riches

The past couple of weeks we have been talking about social class, and this week we were finishing up a movie about the classes in America. They showed the "very wealthy" in the Hamptons of New York who were wealthy because they have old money like money from the Vanderbilt estate, or Rockerfeller estate. There were two ladies who commented about a new house that was built, and that the person that lived in it was "nevo" or new, as in they were not born into the money, they had to work for it. It's the American dream, the rags to riches, which is what most celebrities today are, their "nevo". Everyone wants to be "in" with those in their social class, but the people with money cannot accept the people with new money because as said before, they were not born into it. This goes along with Monopoly- the social class version that we played this week in class. Everyone was a certain class and the idea was to see if we would move up or down. I was the upper class, and I was more interested in seeing if the poorest and the blue collar workers would move up in class as oppose to me moving up in class because I'm use to hearing the "Rags to Riches" story. Social class is a major part of the American society no matter how much we don't want to think about it, it's always around us. At school, especially high school and high school girls, people always judge where you get your clothes or what label they have on them, or if you have higher grades you can afford a tutor for your ACT and get high scores. Your life depends on your social class, because most of the time you will always remain in your social class unless you pursue a dream and go from rags to riches.