Wednesday, April 25, 2012

People Like Us (documentary)

The documentary "people like us" was so eye opening for me and it was so interesting, i wanted to hear more stories and more opinions on other peoples perspectives of each social class. Its funny how the documentary says that there are over 1000 types of social class in the United States and how difficult is is to change from the class you were born in. We are labeled by the clothes we wear, types of cars, way we speak, our income, friends, education, were you live, where you were born, and so on. Yet its funny to me how a young teenage girl stands in the middle of the school hall way and watches her classmates walk by, and judges them just by giving them a glimpse. She would just look at the way they walk, and clothing they wear an immediately says if he/she is a "dork", "popular", "jock", "geek", so on. 
Throughout the film, it was shown a group of upperclass young adults going to a bar a poor side of town, and they communicated with the people in the bar, had a few drinks with them, played games, and though the upper class people felt comfortable because they were not being judge by their action in this bar (because in a bar from their town they would be judged), the working class in the bar immediately know that these people don't belong in their bar, "they don't belong to our family, they just come here so their neighbors won't see what they are really doing." says a working class man from the bar. which takes me to  theory that a man said in the documentary, he said that its almost impossible to completely change from social class, even if you marry a rich person and move to mansions, you will always have the working class norms and values inside of you. These young adults that were at the bar were trying to fit in a small class but people still knew they didn't belong in that area. Which is really upsetting because no matter what you do people will always categorize you.

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