Social Classes

Living and growing up a certain way is all part of being classified in a certain social class in America. Being brought up in a highly populated suburb near Chicago the average income is about $90,000. When someone from a trailer home in Alabama thinks about someone who makes $90,000 a year, they have their stereotypes as to what those people are like, as do the people making that much money in Chicago have their stereotypes of those in trailer parks in Alabama. People say you can never change the social class you're in and in a way I think it's true. Watching a video in class on social classes, a middle class woman wanted to try to go out with a wealthy man. With training and a makeover she looked the part, but still looked out of place and awkward at an art gallery, even looking uncomfortable because she had not grown up in that type of atmosphere. I think it's unfair that people are looked at by social class but in reality when you see someone's house or car you automatically say they have money or don't. When you talk to someone for the first time, the first question you ask after their name is "what do you do?" which relates to how important Americans think social class is.