Tuesday, April 24, 2012

"People Like Us"

Everyone may have a life, but we all live our lives in different ways. People can work all their lives and still remain in the same social class they started with. Many people in America who are in lower and even middle class live with little or no opportunities to grow or expand to change their present and future. There are Numerous Measures in identifying what social class people stand in. People are mostly identified by their appearance. People have the drive in them, the need to belong to class. Too creat and to hold a strong name for themself. "People like Us" informs that social class is like high school. People want to belong, to hangout with the privilege group, the coolest group. People invest themselves in becoming appected. If people have the class they can sustain and develop it and grow it into something better. Many people don't have the opportunity, the money, and/class to build themselves a name. In Tammy's story, your watching a woman with four kids who has been living in the lowwer class system since she was a child herself. Tammy has always wanted and pictured her life a collage student and as a teacher. But giving the class she was born in limits the Opportunity she has in achieving those goals. "People like Us" also informs that most of the lower class stays as lower class. Tammy walks 10 miles to work everyday, living paycheck per paycheck trying to survive under the roof they call home. One of her sons would walk around thinking he is better then his family, and would be embrasses to bring his friends around his home, brothers, and would lie about his lifestyle and income. Which is evidence that social class makes an impact in the way we live, and how we want to be viewed by others. "Socity is a terrible bore, but it's worse not to be invited".