Racism

After watching the video a "girl like me" i am completely shocked that people could feel so down on themselves just because of what other people think about them. And its not even what they do that people judge them for its something that they have absolutely no control over and its disturbing to hear that some of the people would sit in a bathtub with bleach to make their skin lighter! that is truly insane, but if racism is a social creation of man isn't it possible to start over and eliminate the racist class system? As unrealistic as this sounds it must be possible as long as small steps are taken to rewrite something as horrible as this that has gotten out of control and is clearly still an issue. Personally race makes no difference to me and im sure that's easy for anyone to say but i even took the harvard race test and i slightly favor black people so if anything im racist towards whites! 

Mobility in Class

When playing monopoly i was "born" into the lower- middle class and during the game i realized how hard it was to buy property, get myself out of jail, and save enough money to pay the rich when i landed on their property. I basically had no way to make enough money to move up in class but just enough to stay in the one i was assigned and keep off welfare. Reality is you are stuck in the class you are born into and it's not your fault whether you are poor or rich, and it's near impossible to change it even if you wanted to. My family is a good example of this because my dad's dad was a construction worker his whole life and his wife a waitress so the value of hard work is passed down to my dad and he becomes a roofer and now a mailman. The same thing with my mom's side, her mom was a single mother who raised 5 kids and worked cleaning houses. None of my parent's parents went to college and neither of my parents did either. There stuck in the social class of the blue-collar workers and they know this so there is no effort or reason to try and move up because realistically it's not possible. In my case the opportunity to move up in social class would be going to college but with the economy situation is that even a realistic choice considering the price of college loans and interest rates? I do though see my self moving up from what my parents have but to move up to an entirely new social class title seems a bit out of reach.

Social Class

To answer the question of do different social classes try and separate themselves from other social classes i think the answer is yes. People surround themselves with other people who they feel most comfortable with, unfortunately this usually means people just like themselves. So if your making more than a $100,00 a year and live in a mansion that you need a map for you, want to socialize with the people who you can talk to about what new stocks your investing in or the 3rd vacation you will be taking this year to an island you can't even spell. All this while taking a much needed steam in your country club. People like that think there too important to waste time with the working man because what could they possibly have in common with someone who has to work 40+ hours a week to put food on the table, nothing right? Of course this makes the lower class feel invisible. Rich people think their important because they actually are, people know their names. Who really knows your waiters name, or your mailman's or your garbage man's? You don't because you think you have nothing to gain from a conversation with someone "lower" than you. So when your always considered by other people to be inferior to everyone else, even though your right there with over 90% of the rest of the US, it gets to you. So of course people are trying to be taught to be able to act like someone in the upper class and who can blame them, but it's wrong. My parents never told me to stay away from people better off or worse off than us because the amount of money you make doesn't define you as a person and if it does your doing something wrong.