WEEK SEVEN

                                               Social Class in America

Social class in America matters a lot because once you found yourself in any of the class; it becomes very difficult to get out of it. The most interesting part is that some or if not, most of those classes are being inherited. The upper class in America mostly are those people who successfully inherited their wealth via a particular folkway and if they use it wisely, they pass it to their kids and their kids pass it as well to their children too. The upper middle class usually made their own money. Just like the upper class, those at the lower level of the scale (lower class) also inherit poverty from their parents. They turn to follow the same style of living that their parents have been living and fail to understand that they find their way out of it either by getting education.

If someone could ask what class I fall in, I will say I fall in the lower class because even though you go to work every day and you are able to pay your bills and put fuel in you car, life to me is still so hard compared to what I had when I was with my parents. When we were young, my father was in one of the influential position in Government in my country. We were living a good life with butlers around helping us do a lot of things. We also went to good schools and my siblings ended up with good jobs. When I came to America, I discovered that life is so different; I had to learn how to do a lot of things by myself. Social class differ from country to country. In America, I discovered that I was found in the lower class since I could not even afford money to pay for butlers as we had in Africa and I had to start working seven days a week in order to muddle through. I was living from pay check to pay check.

It became very difficult for me to get a better job since my degree was from Africa. Some times one is tempted to say that this idea of social class is being affected by some degree of segregation. I have been at my job for five years now and been putting in application to become a manager but yet to no avail. People get hired and I train them with what they are supposed to do but still I am never qualified for that position so they said.