Social Class

This past week in class we watched a video about social class. Well in the video I learned that usually the social class your born into is the social class you will end up in. Like people who are born in the family of WASPS or OLD MONEY will probably end up as WASPS (aka having a ton of money) well in some cases there are new money, people who climb the economic latter. While middle class born people usually end up in middle class like myself. Both my parents are accountants, which puts us in middle class, and I want to become one too which is probably going to put me in middle class too when im older. Just like people in the lower class, since they usually can't afford college there not usually going to end up with a college degree which most people in the middle class have a college degree. There usually end up at a blue college job, putting them back in lower class.

Drugs and Prisions

Recently we watched a show about people in Jail. Well in the video it was about life in jail, whose in jail, how they got there, will they end up there again, and so on. Well from that video I learned that most people in Jail are lower class people, minorities, and in most cases do hard drugs. Well usually the people who are in Jail don't have alot of money because people with money usually end up getting out of what ever trouble they got into by getting an expensive lawyer instead of a state assigned lawyer who you get to speak 7 mins with. Well the people who usually go to Jail will end up going back to jail once they get out because they don't have a job or money there not really able to get out of the slums. Well I realized that because im in a Middle class family even if my lawyer couldn't get me out of a jail i would probably not end up going back there because my family would be able to get me back on my feet and head me in the right direction unlike lower class people who would have trouble getting back on there feet considering there economic situation.

Coin Flip

In class we did this activity were everybody started out with the same amount of coins (3) and you would flip a coin to decide who takes the other persons coins. Well after about 5 mins there ended up with most people having a few or none. There a few people with having like around 10 or  so and one person having around 40 coins. Well then are teacher told us how this relates to life, some people have most of the money, some have a decent amount of money and most have almost no money compared to the top of the the list of income. Well, i realized that for me living in a middle class family, with a decent family income compared to the top, its almost im possible to make it to the top its like flipping a coin only the lucky make it to the top.

Learning Something New

This week in class we did alot of fun stuff such as learn about aikido a Japanese self defense technic. Aikido is a fighting technic created by Japanese solider in WWII. This technic is a mixed of different martial arts, it supposed to take someone's energy whose trying to hurt you and use it against them to not cause harm to them by calming them down. This is amazing to me cause i've grown up in a culture that teaches you to hurt the person whose trying to hurt you, by causing them more pain then they have cause you. But the guy who created aikido realized if two people keep at it by going back and forth causing more pain each time, it will never end till there both dead. So he realized that if you calm some one down if there trying to hurt you both there problems will be resolved peacefully.