When your dad is mr. Moneybags.....your mr. Moneybags jr.

Being a child living in a certain social class may be difficult because their parents may strive to push them into a higher social class or they may be happy with them staying the same social class. This depends on what social class the child's parents came from and how they were raised. In the movie we watched in class, the very wealthy WASP's who's parents began making money in the 13th colonies has stayed in the same social class because their parents are content with where they were-and they should be, looking at the houses they live in. The children are proud that they are labeled as a WASP. But their are negative aspects of being in a social class like this, you look down upon people who are in a lower class than you even if you don't know the person. This relates to the way that they were raised and the morals and values taught by their parents. The WASP's were raised to think that they were better looking, smarter, wealthier, and dressed better. This kept them in a very tight circle of people because they looked down upon everyone else. One example of someone they would look down upon is the people who lived in the trailer in the movie.This family is at one of the lowest social levels. They live in a small trailer and the mother work's at Burger King full time. The young man that we met was looking to go to college and wanted to be a lawyer. His mother was content with the life they lived because she knew that it was very hard to get out of her social class and didn't want to. The boy said he was embarrassed with where he lived, because he hung out with people in a higher social class than him. His mother said that he thinks hes in a higher social class and he needs to know where he came from because this is his home. It is very hard to move around in social class because most parents teach them what they know and have learned from their past Which keeps them close to their social class. When we played monopoly i noticed that at the end of the game, the rich got richer and the poor got poorer or if you were in the middle class you stayed the same. Nobody at my table moved up or down in their social class. This is just the same as real life, because it is very hard to move into or out of a different social class. This is because the people from other social classes look down on people from lower social classes. This makes people from lower classes feel uncomfortable to move up in class thus restricting them to fulfill their dreams.