Social Classes Documentary

The documentary that we watched in class observed the differences between the lives of people from different social classes. One lady made it her career to teach people how to integrate into different social classes. That shows how intricate and difficult for an outsider to pick up on some of the details of social classes are.

Tammy worked hard to keep her family afloat, but they were still going nowhere. It made me wonder why her sons weren't doing anything. They could be working and helping their mom. How can you watch your mother work like that and just sit like a bum all day? I don't know how Tammy got to be so poor, but her children were obviously born into it; she probably was too, to a degree. The children's upbringing obviously doesn't help them, but their laziness doesn't either. Except for the one who got all of those awards. But he's very self-centered and is even openly ashamed of his family.

The very rich spectrum pointed out not only the differences between the social classes, but the differences between old and new money. Two people could have the same amount of wealth, but they would be in completely different social classes. The old money people were ridiculously pretentious, despite the fact that most of them had the money handed to them. New money people tend to flaunt more, but that's because they put in the work to get their own money and they know what it takes.