Ashley's Response
In regards to your question I have made some choices that I would regret till this day but they were only made to prove I was not intimidated by others. When I was in middle school being cool and popular were one of the things to be so you did anything you could to get attention from people that didn't even know who you were, it was like a rule. Picking fights, stealing peoples stuff broad day, smoking, taking other dudes girls, get affiliated with a gang or higher power was all the choices that a kid like me can make to get my name in peoples mouths. For me I only did a few because I had my limits but even so I took punishment for the attempts to act in such a way. Truthfully I didn't even get the publicity that I wanted all I was given was the mark of a failure. See in most cases not all of us get to the top and we are somewhat forced into classes in which our fellow classmate Carmelo mentioned earlier in our discussion. To break it down its like having a little country of 2000 or more kids and you have your higher class, middle class, and lower classes. Most of the popular kids or higher class have money, go to every party, football game, etc. The middle class is the kids who have decent grades to get them to college, they are the ones who throw parties most of the time and may have a little status amongst the crowd. The lower class are the kids who don't care, there is a mix within there own class to, usually poor or has less to nothing. We all have our own views but kids can change that whole thing around but it involves a lot of work, time, effort and money.
Natalia's Response
Social classes are brought up by society to divide those who are likely to succeed and most likely to fail. As you see in every major city you have your downtown area then your ghettos to surround that then futher out is your suburbs. Its strange to society for a rich person talking to a poor person it like demoralizing your class in both ways. See if a rich person was to date a poor person, his society would look at him or her as if he or she were stupid because he or she can't even support themselves financially. Then if he or she was poor him or hers society would dislike that fact that he or she is dating a financially stable person and hate you for it. It all falls in the category of discrimination no matter the sex, color, race etc. I have been called out of my name before with racial slurs but I do not follow up on building the tension up it only causes more problems. We all deal with discrimination even in peoples minds it just doesn't come out of our head which was part of out lecture about marketing the 7/11 rule. We prejudge a figure or what we see and stick to that until we hear or see otherwise which would change your persona on that person or what is in view.
I feel the same as you when it comes to social class. I think a person should be able to talk to who they want to without worrying about what someone else thinks, but at the same time I know I place judgment on some people as well but I hope to not do this anymore.
ReplyDeleteI agree and feel that everybody has the right to talk to who ever they want. Because when I was in high school I would talk to everybody I was cool with people. And to tell you the truth I used to judge people and I changed my ways to not look at a human being and judge them. And I feel that sometimes we feel pressured to talk to a different kind of people. Like for example in high school when everybody starts freshmen year we all sometimes have choices on who to talk to or who to not.And I have been judged for where I live and for my nationality. And In my opinion nobody should be judged because for who they are and what they believe in.
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