In the movie, one man explained that the last time he interacted with someone from another social class was when he was in high school, and it wasn't a very good experience either because the working class felt they were being looked at as inferior. If someone said this about our high school, I would totally disagree. I think that most people at our school are already mid to upper middle class, and in fact I've never really seen anyone at Stevenson nor interacted with anyone who looks to be part of the "working class". In a way I feel that Stevenson is sheltered from the rest of the country by our class. If anything the class differences that I have noticed from day to day at school have been the differences from middle class to extremely wealthy.
If lower class people feel invisible I would understand why. Their lives are sometimes based off of the negatives. For example being told over and over again that a person cannot have the job, or the appartment, or the clothes that they want, it turns people negative. Time after time being told No, it can make a person numb to reality and life. This numbness can be seen as feeling "invisible".
Thursday, May 29, 2008
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