Social Class Importance

Knowing what social class is important. Trying to live in one in which you are not in will only result in bad things. This why it is important to stay in your own social class. In today 's society our social class level will greatly impact our lives. It will impact your life by either living on a good neighborhood or a bad one. Being in the high end social classes is better but if you are not there yet do not try to live their life styles. Many of the people who make up the lower part of the social class are immigrants. They do not have another choice than to be in this class. When living in low social class you may have really bad homes. In “Silent Dancing” Judith Ortiz Cofer writes, “I do remember the way the heater pipes banged and rattled
Many low class individuals will dream of getting out and living in a better place. Cofer writes, “It became my father’s obsession to get out of the barrio…” This shows how determined her father was to get out and find better living conditions. It also show how he did not want to be associated with the low class anymore. Her father knew nothing good would come from living there also. Cofer show this when she wrote, “...we were never permitted to form bonds with the place or with the people who lived there.” Her father felt that associating with the other low class people would most likely corrupt his children. No father would want his children affiliate with the wrong crowd because of safety reasons. He wanted his children safe and away from all the bad the barrio had to
In the article What’s the relationship between poverty and poor decision-making? Cynthia Boyd wrote, “Could it be that people of low income spend so much mental energy getting through each day balancing life’s necessities against the weight of money problems that they have less capacity to deal with bigger issues that affect their lives – issues like work, education, parenting? Yes, suggest researchers at the University of Warwick in Coventry, England.” This shows that not all low class people make bad decisions because they want to. Some of their bad decisions come because of all the stress they are under. They get stressed because of bills they have to pay, managing a tight budget on the little money they get, and many more situations that may be going on in their lives. If they did not have this added stress in their lives they might have just made better decisions and maybe have gotten out of the low social