Social Class In America

In many classes that I have taken throughout my education, I have seen a pattern in social class and people’s status in the United States. One of the patterns I have seen is that people who come and seek the American Dream don’t mention any concerns about the separations of the different “social classes.” Those immigrants were happy to just get the opportunity, and claimed that social class didn’t matter. I don’t think that it occurred to them that was something they were going to have to worry about in the future, to them they were getting an equal opportunity to make just as much income as everyone else in the United States. As many of us know, there are many factors that affect one’s social class that directly influences one’s daily lived reality.
We see how social class affects the way we talk, dress, interactions with people, our religious beliefs, achievements, and our sense of morals. All of those actions that we make are marked by social class. This is how I think of social class. It’s basically like a first impression of who

you are, because when people look at you they judge how you look and if you are dressed nicely people are going to assume that you are wealthy. Therefore putting that person in a social class category before even talking to them. I would know this for a fact, because I have witnessed it first hand. One of my close friends now never wanted to come over and talk to me, due to the fact that my mother and I were always presenting ourselves in that appeared to the eye that we were of high social status. That wasn’t necessarily true, but my friend didn’t realize that just because I am/look a certain way doesn’t mean that aspect of my life reflects on my and my family's wealth nor does it mean that is my “social class.”
We have seen a hand full of evidence that people who are from different classes that face fundamentally differences.

In the documentary, Born Rich we watched we saw that the people who have been privileged from the beginning of their life don’t work, because their family don’t think that they need to. Instead, they encourage their offsprings to get a hobby like collecting stamps, coins, etc… However, unlike some people born into a rich family, majority of the people in the world has to work hard to earn their earnings and rewards. Aside from income, another fundamental difference would be one group’s most fundamental and closely held assumptions about the very best way to live their lives may differ from those who live radically different. Again in many of the class discussions that we have had we saw that this fundamental issue comes up a lot. We also see this fundamental concept in the documentary Robert Reich’s Inequality for

All.
“Social class” is a powerful factor that is affecting our daily lives whether for the good or the bad. Let’s also keep this in mind when we think about “social class” it’s just a concept that was created by mankind. As for now we know that we can’t go back and erase the social class categories that we have created. We can only push forward, and try to eliminate how prominent it is in everyone’s daily life.