The Game Of Social Class...

While we played Monopoly in class the other day, I never realized how it is based on social class. You have the game pieces of the Money Bag/Horse, representing the wealthy upper class, then the Car, for the middle class, and the Wheelbarrow, for the working class. Monopoly is basically the game of life. Once we started playing it got me thinking. Which class am I in? Do I let others know what class I’m in? Do I hang out with people in different social classes? It all started coming to me. I never really thought about whom I associate myself with until now. I think that because of our school being one of the most diverse schools, you really are not in one particular social class. There are cliques and groups, but for me I hang out with who I am friends with. I have multiple friends from different social groups and I’m glad I do. Being with the same group of friends that are in the same clique again and again would just get boring to me. You talk about the same people and do the same things. You aren’t expanding your horizons and aren’t exploring the other people who you have been within the same school for almost 4 years now. There isn’t anything wrong with being friendly or friends with people outside of your social circle. People pick on people. People judge other people. But for what reason? If say the ‘popular’ kids who never associate themselves with the ‘geeks’ are never going to learn about who they really are. They are judging them by the outside not the inside. So if they have not so nice looking clothes, one assumes they don’t have money. While if one dresses in Polo and designer jeans, then they are automatically popular and on the higher end of the class stick.  Assuming gets you nowhere in life. Expand your horizons and live life better with no Social Class.