You Think You're Fancy Huh?

What is class? Are there different types? What does class mean?
According to the dictionary, class is a number of persons or things regarded as forming a group by reason of common attributes, characteristics, qualities, or traits; kind; sort. We use it in our society to describe people in different economic and social backgrounds. As you know there are 3 different kinds: lower, middle, and upper class.
 To prepare us for this topic,  we were to watch a couple of videos from the documentary "People Like Us: Social Class in America." I watched four different videos: Belles, Friends in Lower Places, Tammy's Story, and How to Marry the Rich. It was so interesting to see each story. The video Belles, was about the cheerleaders, and how so many girls from a very young age who are in dance lessons, strive to be one of them in the future. Some girls who loved to were in those dance lessons didn't know who the Belles were and therefore were "banned" from the click the other girls had formed. You had to be in a certain category to fit in. 
Friends in Lower Places is about a group of people who go to the "lower" class places to have a good time. It is interesting because the "rich" people try to go and fit in and behave like they can't back where they're from, and the locals know they're not from town. A lot of them were offended because the rich people think they can just go and be accepted, but if they were to go to the rich people's "environment" they wouldn't be welcomed. 
Tammy's story was my favorite. It's about a mother of 3 boys, who are in the lower class. They live in a trailer home, she works at Burger King, doesn't have a car, and other situations. Her oldest son is embarrassed of the way they lived, and it makes Tammy really sad to know that her own child is embarrassed of her and their home. Her son wants better things, a better life than his mom's, and I think that's great. The only thing I disagree on is that he should be grateful for the hard work that Tammy is putting on to bring food on the table. 
How to Marry the Rich is about a woman who is being "trained" by another woman who has married a rich man. The single woman is tired of finding men who do not have jobs, a car, or successful life; so the married women helps her learn the ways of the "upper" class in order for her to meet a rich, and successful man. 
What I learned and found very interesting is that no matter in what social and economic "class" we fall in we all want what the other has. The upper class wants the "freedom" that the middle class has, the lower and middle class want the success and the advantages that the upper class has. To me it is just sad to know that we have these labels and we all get treated differently depending on which class we fall in. We are all human beings, we live on the same planet and we should all get treated the same. It's true that some work harder than others, but if we really want that success in life, that is what we all have to do. You have to work hard and be patient for what you want out of your life. You can't be something you are not, don't let people label you no matter where you were born. We can "level up" depending on how hard we work, and even then some people will still not accept you. It all comes to the individual, and how much work you put in to get where you're at today. Unfortunately, we care too much about what people think about us, and that is what stops us from moving forward. Class is just a word not who people are, if anything we should be labeled by the type of people we are and not where we come from or how much money we have.