Position in life and its effect on perception

The way you perceive identity, society, and culture is affected by your position in the world or "class". When you are born, you inherit the class of your family and your family basically decides who you are until you are old enough to change your class yourself. You are raised by your family so you think like your family. Poorer and middle class families tend to base life off of hard work and getting by through their own efforts. They also tend to put down upper classes and the rich. Being born into a richer family means that usually less work is involved and they look down on lower class family. In society, the middle class is always busy and the rich are viewed as being leisurely. No matter what your position in life is, you tend to build that up behind you as your identity. You become proud of what you are and if you move up a class, you become even more appreciative and it is more respectful in the eyes of others. Dropping a class is sometimes viewed as a lack of determination and hard work. In society, the poorer seem to feel that the government is out to get them because everything seems unfair. For upper classes, society is a much easier place to live in because you are looked up to. These views are all opinionated and change from person to person.