A Nation of Tribes: How Social Class Divides Us - People Like Us episode #1

America is a nation of tribes, and we rarely go outside our own comfort zones to interact with others.

[ineffableraps]

colleges need to up their game. 2021 really still watching this.

[trinitywilliams]

I've watched this doc in 3 classes please help me I'm so sick of stolen Ford lady

[jgunn]

I remember watching this on the Old TV when it first aired on PBS. Happily refound this today.

[jwatwater]

"I certinaly wouldn't drive a Ford... it's probably stolen"

THAT FUCKIN... I CANNOT BREATHE I LAUGHED SO HARD

[dch]

Yeah, this is why I majored in sociology. Incidentally, this video was used in one of my classes. I believe the class was "Self and Social Identities".

[thinkinoutloud.]

Isn't it so odd. I was raised to think high class was about your character, your manners, behavior, your stance on fairness towards all. I think today it's about money, what you own, what you can get away with and if you have others that back your play.

[nivekzurc]

Every since I started taking these college elective requirements sociology, communication, it makes me sick that what I'm learning and seeing is sooo true. Even though people go through their entire lives not knowing.

[michealadoherty]

Yo shout out to mr. Joseph for giving us work during the TP shortage of 2020

[mella]

I love how when we're kids, none of this matters. We don't judge people by what they look like or what they have, we judge them by who is nice to us and who isn't, and that's how we chose our friends. So what changed to turn us into rude, judgmental, prejudice groups of people who allow possessions to define the quality of our hearts???

[breannaw]

There's a really fun flash game based on this doc, you get to decorate a house and see what class you are and talk to people about it

[edgarmorales]

It is the CONSCIOUSNESS which divides people and which is felt on every level of their being - for we are all, despite our materialized bodies, CONSCIOUSNESS FORMS expressing consciousness patterns and CONSCIOUSNESS FORMS receiving consciousness patterns from others.

The consciousness of each individual is their reality - not their skin or appearance - and it is the consciousness of people which either attracts or repulses others.

[oliviaperkins]

People who have never seen any struggle can easily judge others based on their money and materialistic items.

[lazyside]

We've been lower-lower class, upper-lower class, and maybe (barely touched) lower-middle class all throughout my life so far. It's volatile for us, if we're judging class by income.

[sequanamoore]

This is really an eyeopener, it makes you realize that there are many different class levels that certain individuals will never make it to. It is highly recognized that you are definitely looked at by what you have the the things that one is entitled to. It quite surprising that one would even look at ones bathing suit and judge them by their class level. It is absolutely obscured, but in their actuality it's normal and it's equal. It can make one jealous just by listening to the way upper class people speak of lower class individuals. It is surely a fact that some of these kids and adults have gotten most of the things by their entitlements, where their parents work, tribes and all. so yes there are many rich tribes but we are also defined by our culture.

[SarahKM]

I wish when I was a kid I had experienced what Mella Bella was talking about.  I went to a privileged private school in Houston because my older brother went there and I learned very quickly the different classes because I didn't live in the right area of town as everyone else.  Sigh...

[sequanamoore]

I would define this as the perfect definition of the term social stratification. Everyone is being defined by what they wear, eat, places they go and things of that nature

[peacefieldhistory]

I really wish you would make the full documentary available. Teachers would love to use this in their classrooms!

[ainemairead]

I'm praying for the snobs bless their poor hearts. .♡♡♡♡♡

[losvigil]

when Columnist R. Couri Hay speaks about the different criteria for creating "classes" in American society, he is not speaking of classes; he is speaking of prejudices and stereotypical labels. What he describes are some of the daily personal distinctions, observations and judgments that people make about each other which are the basis of most prejudice and discrimination today.

[jjojjorge]

Continuing my comment... A world where etiquette is still fighting ethics; illusions taking charge over reality, leading to unsatisfied and thus unhappy lives.