Before we can analyze the community, it first must be defined where it is located. I live in the suburb of the city of Rochester, New York called the town of Greece. The town is comprised of approximately 95,000 residents of all different ages and from all different ethnic backgrounds. It is a very conservative community focused on tradition and the rich history of the area.

Class status in the area is primarily defined by economic standing. This distinction is detectable in one way by observing the different living arrang

My high school also demonstrates the class separations. The school provides an interesting environment because it is a kind of "shared space" where both upper and lower class students have to attend. In the school there were definitely physically noticeable differences between the classes: students from upper-class backgrounds would often wear designer clothing while lower-class students would wear what the upper class refers to as "ghetto clothing." Upper-class students would also from cliques that only "certain" people were allowed to join. Just as Marx describes in his manifesto, the same type of class discrimination still exists in my community today.

ements of each of the classes. In one particular area of the town very close to where I lived for 18 years, there is an apartment complex, more commonly referred to as "low-income housing" by residents in the area. This apartment complex is located directly behind a neighborhood of homes for upper class families. The differences between these areas are physically noticeable: the apartments are very small and often overcrowded, while the houses in the wealthier area are larger and usually comfortably spacious for families of six people; the insides of the apartments are very bare, often furnished just barely enough for the residents to eat and sleep, the houses, however, are very comfortably equipped. Even the label of "low-income" communicates a level of low-economic status.

The social attitudes of the residents also reflect the class differences. Residents in the neighborhood are often afraid to even walk through the apartment area because of the assumption of the "type" of people that live there. In addition, there is a fence that physically separates the apartments from the rest of the neighborhood (built, of course, by the upper-class residents). Marx identifies this type of separation in his manifesto: "Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes directly facing each other: bourgeoisie and proletariat." (35). Marx goes on to define the bourgeoisie as the upper class and the proletariat as the lower class. He describes how in his era these classes were separating both socially and physically. Similarly, we can see that in my community, the upper and lower classes are separate.

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