Post by Keith on May 23, 2007 19:11:48 GMT -8
There really isn't any universal perspective on class. What class you are pretty much hard to define. It shouldn't be defined at all. What is considered lower class, middle class, upper class is solely a state of mind. I remembered one segment on Oprah with Anderson Cooper last year was the displacement of the upper and lower class. It seemed that there were more lower class than there were middle and upper class. Most of the the United States happens to live at the poverty level. In the past the classes seemed to be defined.
What really is deemed "lower" class, "middle" class, or "upper" class? There seems to be no universal answer. One person's views can differ slightly or greatly from another person's views. Sometimes I feel like I'm middle class and at times I feel like I'm lower class. Class happened to be one of the hot topics of the 2006 Elections. Lou Dobbs on CNN was one of the people covering the election, debates, Q & A, etc. One segment on Lou Dobbs covered the rapidly shrinking middle class. Oprah also did a segment on the shrinking middle class. What can be universally defined as middle class is indeed shrinking.
A friend and I talked about the shrinking middle class. In a sense there is a shrinking middle class and at the same time there's not. What we see defined as middle class on TV seems to be shrinking at the same time there's someone who's going to have it better than you at the same time you're going to have it better than someone else. Class is pretty undefinable to universal standards. But there is something universal out of this someone will have it better than you and you will have it better than someone else. Same thing applies to bad things you'll always will have it much worse than someone else and someone else will always have it much worse than you. Class is just a state of mind like security and oppression are state of minds.
One group of people can think of themselves as middle class while there are others that think they're upper class or lower class. Views on class differ from one person to another. One person can consider going to Walmart as lower class while another can consider going to Walmart as middle class. Or if one person has a very nice car and someone else? Another person would probably go, "so what?" Plus there would be questions on how that person got the car in the first place. Like my cousin who's eleven years old. She has a Nintendo DS, PSP, and all sorts of expensive things and it looks like she has it better than me but it's not the case. Her mom's current boyfriend bought her all the stuff as a form of bribery for her "affection."
I remember the segment about class on Oprah where she interviewed several people. There was this one women most people thought of as upper class. But when they taped a day in her daily life, the woman considered herself as middle class. She had a nice car and very nice clothes. But she worked as a restaurant hostess and depending on the restaurant hosts and hostesses don't make that much. Plus someone else bought the car for her. She didn't use her own money to get the car. One family considered themselves to be upper middle class while most would consider them to be upper class.
From what I learned on Oprah is that we really can't tell who comes from what class. We can assume by people's appearances that they're lower, middle, or upper class but are they really in those classes? That also goes along with what I said about someone having better than you and you having better than someone else. Well you put "class" into perspective there is one important thing you should learn, you really can't make assumptions on class. Nor should you assume what class a person is or people belong to. You can't assume especially if you don't even know those people.
Assumption is the mother of all screw ups. Assuming only makes you look like an idiot. Class is a state of mind defined by how one thinks and behaves. Remember things aren't always as they seem.
And it doesn't matter what side of the tracks you come from.
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What really is deemed "lower" class, "middle" class, or "upper" class? There seems to be no universal answer. One person's views can differ slightly or greatly from another person's views. Sometimes I feel like I'm middle class and at times I feel like I'm lower class. Class happened to be one of the hot topics of the 2006 Elections. Lou Dobbs on CNN was one of the people covering the election, debates, Q & A, etc. One segment on Lou Dobbs covered the rapidly shrinking middle class. Oprah also did a segment on the shrinking middle class. What can be universally defined as middle class is indeed shrinking.
A friend and I talked about the shrinking middle class. In a sense there is a shrinking middle class and at the same time there's not. What we see defined as middle class on TV seems to be shrinking at the same time there's someone who's going to have it better than you at the same time you're going to have it better than someone else. Class is pretty undefinable to universal standards. But there is something universal out of this someone will have it better than you and you will have it better than someone else. Same thing applies to bad things you'll always will have it much worse than someone else and someone else will always have it much worse than you. Class is just a state of mind like security and oppression are state of minds.
One group of people can think of themselves as middle class while there are others that think they're upper class or lower class. Views on class differ from one person to another. One person can consider going to Walmart as lower class while another can consider going to Walmart as middle class. Or if one person has a very nice car and someone else? Another person would probably go, "so what?" Plus there would be questions on how that person got the car in the first place. Like my cousin who's eleven years old. She has a Nintendo DS, PSP, and all sorts of expensive things and it looks like she has it better than me but it's not the case. Her mom's current boyfriend bought her all the stuff as a form of bribery for her "affection."
I remember the segment about class on Oprah where she interviewed several people. There was this one women most people thought of as upper class. But when they taped a day in her daily life, the woman considered herself as middle class. She had a nice car and very nice clothes. But she worked as a restaurant hostess and depending on the restaurant hosts and hostesses don't make that much. Plus someone else bought the car for her. She didn't use her own money to get the car. One family considered themselves to be upper middle class while most would consider them to be upper class.
From what I learned on Oprah is that we really can't tell who comes from what class. We can assume by people's appearances that they're lower, middle, or upper class but are they really in those classes? That also goes along with what I said about someone having better than you and you having better than someone else. Well you put "class" into perspective there is one important thing you should learn, you really can't make assumptions on class. Nor should you assume what class a person is or people belong to. You can't assume especially if you don't even know those people.
Assumption is the mother of all screw ups. Assuming only makes you look like an idiot. Class is a state of mind defined by how one thinks and behaves. Remember things aren't always as they seem.
And it doesn't matter what side of the tracks you come from.
www.helium.com/tm/230773/there-really-universal-perspective