The Importance Of Social Class In America

1a.) After reading the articles, the social class system in America appears to be a tragedy. For example: Growing up I was surrounded by people with the same background as me. Before I came to America, I was living a pretty good life and most importantly, social class did not matter as much it does in America. However, that was not the case when I moved into this country. As an African, I used to think that America is the place of equal opportunities where hard work leads to success. But after spending years in this country seeing rich people getting richer every day and getting access to pretty much everything they desire, now I believe that social class shapes choices, opportunities, and belongings. In the People Like US video, Tammy’s son …show more content…
In the People Like Us, Matt appears to hide his low class comportment. He does not want to be seeing as poor and most of time his friends ask him a question about his brother, he tried to deny that his blood brother was not his brother that he wishes. On the other hand, Monica and Karen both had dreams that were a little harder to reach than they expected. They changed their lifestyle because of the balance between social life and academics. These stories reminded me when I first arrived here. I was trying to talk like without people noticing my accent because I though people may give more respect and assume that I was born in this country. But after I realized that no matter how much you work or trying to fake something that is natural my historical background will always minimized my choices. I do agree that trying to improve our social class will give us more chance of be successful. However. I disagree that faking it will makes us feel better about ourselves because at the end of the day, we going back to sleep and talk to those people that we appears to hide from society as we seen in People Like