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Other choices are choices such as love. If you are a super rich adult and you meet a nice person, but they are not as rich, you aren’t making yourself any lower or them any higher. You chose to love the person, so you help them as well because you want them to be happy. This is not a hierarchy. The present-day United States does not have a public hierarchy. It only has the people who make good choices, and those who make bad ones.

2 points

How does this still recognize women being equal to men if these are women-only courses? How would we know who is better? Are there more of these in men-only schools with the same courses at the same level of difficulty? How could we be equal if no females go head-to-head against the males with the knowledge females have now been granted to learn?

2 points

Influences on males are also issues of inequality among people in America. There is a picture created for men that males have to be big and strong and have to be the ones to get all the money to support themselves and their family. Really, though, there is no reason for people to be someone they are not, nor claiming that others are not as they should be, such as what happens with these kinds of stereotypes against people. Against each other. These stereotypes need to stop. We should all have the right to claim what we think is right or wrong. First amendment; freedom of speech. How often are women allowed free speech to “higher ranking” men? How often are women allowed free speech to their work boss about demanding higher pay, or in doing so, do women have an increased chance in getting fired? Women and men should have the same rights as each other.

4 points

I like the way you think. I agree with you that most peoples' vision is clouded by money alone and that people are really just grouped by other people, and even each other, by how much money one has. Maybe by assuming from how nice a house they have if one would just throw out "you're rich!" rather than just simply "nice house" and respect the fact that that one person is friends with the other person. Like you said, it is an issue of perception.

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2 points

I'm pretty sure middle class is just "middle class"; those who have around the average of money. The ones between the rich and the poor. Not too much money to know what to do with or spend on everything, and not too little that one can't buy what they need every day.

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One could be born into a poor, penniless family, barely able to make a living, and as an adult, they are as rich as rich can be. Andrew Carnegie, for example, was born into a poor family and ended up rich, but there are some that are born to a super rich family and end up as an adult with no money or knowledge of what to do on their own. No knowledge of how to even hold a job. These are all choices we make in life. Good education, or lack of focus? Be respectful to your peers and work-mates, or be disrespectful with very little self control and get fired? These all come from the choices we make throughout life, not just as a young-adult. There is no hierarchy of the people, but there are good choices and bad ones that we make.

3 points

Awesome evidence and I quite agree. I've heard the same thing, but I didn't know before what I know now about the prices.

3 points

Currently, Men and Women don’t appear to be equal, but they should be. There is a problem growing in society; the negative influences on females and the growing negative influences toward males. These influences give very negative impressions about both genders. Some, for the females, are that we should be skinny, have long hair, wear tight clothes, and more things like that, but others are even more negative and directed toward females in daily life. Most of these factors are offencive. Some of them may be true, but some, for some people, are very untrue yet still associated with being a female. These are things such as females being uneducated, weak, and not worth much more than just to use us females for personal gain. What so many people don’t realize, though is that many girls are just as strong as guys, and some are stronger. Just because some girls don’t have long hair, or don’t wear tight clothes, doesn’t make them any less equal to any other female or male. It is time to stop being so critical of females and of each other. Let us, the females, be equal to every other female and every male in the United States.

4 points

Not to be disrespectful to any other countries, but which ones are already the excellent ones? Maybe you could name a few. That's all I would like to know. How can we receive higher excellence than which countries?

3 points

I do not believe we have a class system here in America for the average person. Whether "average" means one is poor, homeless, in the "middle class", wealthy, etc. the only "class system" of the people would be the government. However, there are some sub-hierarchy-like things such as positions for different sports, hobbies, and what ever else that may involve some kind of hierarchy, but mainly, the hierarchy of the people of the United States, there is none. One may be born into a family with a lot of money or barely any money, but either way, it is ones' own choice in where they stand. Especially as an adult. What ever "class system" there may be, it only works with peoples' choices in life. Are you going to work hard to get through college with good grades, or, when you are in college, are you going to sit back on the couch and procrastinate and not do your homework and expect that, somehow, you’ll pull through? No. There is not a class system. No hierarchy. Only choices.


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