Learning The Elite Class
One thing I noticed during the years I lived in the USA was how unaware people seem to be of social class. In older societies, everyone is aware of their class from a very young age, but in America they seem to pretend that class doesn&#x27;t exist there (or at least the lower classes seem blissfully unaware, and thus unable to voice it - to their own detriment).<p>I see it a lot in American racism as well. Everyone pretends that racism in America is just that, when it&#x27;s actually classism born of racist roots (which is different enough that it requires a very different solution). Even the phrase &quot;white trash&quot; betrays the classim, whereby otherwise &quot;white&quot; (middle to high class) people are relegated to the lower (&quot;black&quot;, &quot;hispanic&quot;) classes (other terms like &quot;white slavery&quot; are also of a similar turn). And since it&#x27;s extremely difficult to escape your class (as the author has discovered), the system is self-perpetuating.