"people like us"

After watching this video, I felt so bad for the women Tammy at the end. I feel like even if she tried to get out of her lower class it is just about impossible. Im sure like many other people in America, the class system only sometimes allows for those in the lower class or even the middle class to become more than what they are. Unfortunately, many of these people will stay in their class for generations to come, like Tammy father and now Tammy. Their are very little opportunities for the a class to rise to a higher one. The class system in America is based mainly on money. The choices you make, the food you eat, where you live, education, and who you socialize with reveal your class. Because all of these factors, the video explained how America can be compared to a caste system. For example, the upper class and lower class never mix. This also limits opportunties to become a higher class. Their are also " limitations for the poor", and i think that this can be one of them. Without the "mixing" of higher and lower class, they do not know the customs of the social set they wish to be in. This also made me think about how maybe society creates these limitations, and takes away the opportunities for the lower class is because we almost need them in society like in Herbert Gans, argument. Unfortunately, or maybe fortunately, the class system in society determines who we are.