People Like Us

            As sometimes we go out for window shopping, we would see different people on the street. We usually rate people by where they live, their clothings, etc. In the video, it said that class is everywhere. These seem inequality in the society but they are all about class.
            People are also shaped by their belonging classes. Different people from different classes, middle class or working class for instance, would have different values. Some people in the video think that money defines classes division in the society because if someone had money, he could go to private school for a better education than those in public school. Some of them think that how people treat the others classify their classes, like the words they used, the field they talk about and the manner they speak.
           People have the desire to change their classes status, especially the middle-working class people. In America culture, people are educated that we have the liberty to change if we strive for it. However, the conflict here is that people are kept in their own class. Either people from the other class, the upper class, or people from the middle class tend to keep the others away from their class. The upper class people want to keep the people out from their class to maintain the power they own. The middle or working class people also tend to stay in their ascribed class because they want to be protected and not to be "deviant" in the other class even though they are able to move up.           
          In the video and the textbook mention that Americans think that they are middle-class. However, due to races or knowledge, people have different standard of "middle class people". For instance, being in middle class in Black is not the same in White, same for the other races. I would say that there is a possibility of class shift but there is a low probability for people to move up.