From my own personal experience I can see that in America the higher your status and wealth the more attention you get. For instance take a charity for an example, a well off person who will donate ten thousand dollars a year apposed to a middle class person who donates one thousand dollars a year most likely will have more attention paid to them because they are helping the charity out more, even though they are both making donations. The wealthy are paid more attention to because more people can benefit from them, then the

In this school it was appreciated if you donated money to the school to help out with field trips or just to help out the school in general. Well my mother was just barely making the payments that we needed to, so we were not really big on giving donations, therefore we received no recognition or attention from any of the faculty even when my academics where excellent. The people who were donating hundreds or even thousands of dollars we getting there names hung on plaques around the school and having banquet dinners in honor of them. This school was focusing all of their attention on the people who were donating the money and not on the people who were struggling to keep their kids in the school. This was my first real experience that helped me open my eyes and see who really gets the attention in today's society and why they do get all of the attention.

I have had many personal experiences with social class and the art of attention getting. When I was five years old I went to a private all Jewish school. Going there I had one strike against me and that was the color of my skin. I soon realized I had a second strike against me that I never realized would ever effect me and that was my social class. Going to school there as someone who was not well off and was there only because of a scholarship, I got basically no attention and that was not only from the children but from the teachers also.

Reading this book opened my eyes to how serious social class is to Americans. Social class in some ways defines who we are and in many cases where we will be in the future. I think that if we as a community work together, middle class, upper class and any other class teach communication skills to children at a young age, when they are older they will give each other the same respect when having conversations and pay just as much attention to everyone and not base how much attention they do

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