Class Stereotypes

Although racial stereotypes are not publically allowable, class stereotypes seem to be. I think one of the reasons for this is that people need to classify where they are in class stature. Similar to when we did that activity we did in class where we wrote down what groups we're part of, people in society classify themselves based on money, for example how much money one person has, how big their house is, what they do for a living, etc. Because of these distinctions, people tend to need to feel powerful despite which social class they're actually in. People constantly put other people down based on their achievements because it makes them feel as though they are greater than someone else. I think a reason that this seems allowable is that anyone can be in any social class. Any member of any race, any age, any ethnicity can be part of the low, middle, or upper class. Because of this, I think that people think it's o.k. to make comments based on class because not one group is being offended; technically, every group can be.