People Like Us

I found the video to be very interesting and related to what we had discussed in class this week. The simple question on what Social Class we think we fall in to. I learned on how people view you and the class that they think you belong to based on so many different things. Something surprising was that your class can based so many different things including even what kind of food you eat, as it showed in the film, that the wealthier the family was, the less white bread they ate. Even the way people socialize is somehow connected to the class you fall into. The way you stand, the way you talk, the way you walk, so many different things that they showed that according to them, had to due with your class. Depending on what social class they came from, they all gave different answers on what having class meant to them. I found the single most important part in the film to show how people in higher classes often times view people they feel don't belong in their groups was when they were interviewing that "WASP" member. He mentions wondering who were these "short, fat, ugly people"(a couple dancing) and wondering how they got in, referring to the "WASP" society he belonged to. They felt that they were better than everyone else. And then at the end of the film they showed a boy who was poor and embarrassed to show where he lived because of being in a  "lower class" family and how he was even embarrassed to walk with his own brother and introduce his own mother to friends based on their appearance. I found that part to be shocking on how in order to fit in with a certain class that boy had to lie about his own class and reject his family.

I definitely felt that this film was very accurate on social class. I felt that something of self experience that I could relate to this film was when I went to the Hamptons in the summer and stopped by a deli to buy food. Not only was the deli organized so much better then deli's around here, but they had better selections of  foods and to make a long story short, I did not feel like I belonged there, not only were the people in the deli looking at me funny, but I can tell they were judging me as well. And I feel it was based on how I was dressed and looked. And to me, what happened there is all connected to what the film was talking about, on how people judge you based on many different things and what social class they feel you belong to.