Even if you will not answer me, I want to state, that I think your points a highly subjective and I find all of them questionable. The inherent optimism to rise up by your own does not make a society classless.
I can not think of a western country that is as extremely divided as America. No limit at the top, no limit at the bottom.
People do not talk about the class of people they meet, because the mostly meet people of their own class in the first place. You go to similar schools, attend similar colleges and live in similar neighbourhoods.
Europe has its nouveau rich, that do not really belong to the 1%, too, the same way, that America has its aristocrats, too. I mean, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama and now Bush vs. Clinton again?!?
I think if you dig deeper you'll see that the only somewhat aristocratic family in your statement are the Bushes. The Clinton's are just power hungry, ugly, bourgeois. The Obama's are just a vessel for many things.
Otherwise, spot on, and fantabulous analogy about the limitless top and bottom!
I can not think of a western country that is as extremely divided as America. No limit at the top, no limit at the bottom.
People do not talk about the class of people they meet, because the mostly meet people of their own class in the first place. You go to similar schools, attend similar colleges and live in similar neighbourhoods.
Europe has its nouveau rich, that do not really belong to the 1%, too, the same way, that America has its aristocrats, too. I mean, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama and now Bush vs. Clinton again?!?