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Blue collars blue or while collars
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Blue Collar Blues or White Collar Glory? I think that in America today, there are distinct, yet illusional, social classes and the media ' s exercised power of creating and destroying these classes in our minds is becoming more and more evident. The "make-believe" media leads us to believe that these are individual classes in the American caste system, and that most of us belong to the middle class. The well-known all- inclusive "middle class" is one that has been predominately created by the media, and the media presents the middle class as the majority of people in society. In the way presented by the media, there are distinct differences between the low-income "working class", professional "middle class", and powerful and wealthy "upper class". On a personal level, I know that I have always thought that my family and friends were all on the same middle class level. Bus according to...
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