Social classes

"People Like Us: Social Class in America"

http://www.pbs.org/peoplelikeus/

I wish I could watch the documentary movie (which was not available online for free), then I would have a much better approach to interpret my understanding of this website. I tried playing one of the games and it didn’t attract me because the questions where not designed properly so not everybody would find an answer close to her/his situation. I red the stories and it seems they all say if you change your class, it does not matter higher or lower; it creates issues for your relationship with your family if they are still in your old class. Val was gone to new money social class through her husband status, Charles left the luxury life that his parents had and went to working social class, Roberta changed her class by getting married to Ben, and it caused problems on their relationships with their families or it was even worse for Charles who lost his relationship with his parents. In real world based on my experience, I have seen people who changed their social class by having higher education or developing a successful business with much higher income and also helping their family and changing their social class gradually. But it does not happen for everybody and some people have to disconnect from their old world to be in a different level of society. I think inequality has been a natural part of the human society forever and some people happen to be lucky by having proper role models and take themselves out of a lower class toward higher classes away from poverty and crime. It usually happens very gradually and to help the process to speed up, society needs to help people to get higher education more easily and facilitate more encouraging tools to help people recognize their potentials. Human being can be positive and creative when they are able to identify and use their abilities. In the other side new money class ad even old money class needs be educated to accept people because of their capabilities not because of their social class. That makes the path much smoother for people from lower class to move from poverty. Human has had good progress but we still have a long journey from inequality to equality and have a happy peaceful society.