Thursday, May 29, 2008

blue collar stereotypes

The way the movie portrayed the blue collar people and how the middle class people were treating them, it seemed more like they were making fun of them rather than "glamorizing" their lifestyle. The dive bars in the city were a great example. I saw that the working class people were very kind to the yuppies that came into their bar and their lifestyle, but I don't think it was because they really wanted to get to know or be friends with the middle class people, I think theey only acted that way just to be nice, and to get the richer peoples buisness(the working class profited from them). I do find this condescending, because it cannot go both ways. For example, the working class people wouldn't be able to go into a middle/upper class club or bar, they just wouldn'y be able to afford it or fit in with the rest. So why should the middle class yuppies be able to go into the lower class lifestlye just to make fun of them, and have a good time? It would be a totally different story if the yuppies kept in contact, and stayed friends with the people they met, but in this case they didn't, and that's totally caondescending and shallow of the middle class peoples.

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