I learnt something really strikes me in sociology class today. In the U.S. successful people with high educational background like having a degree from Harverd tend to take a position of Meritocracy, which is the idea of power and privilege seen as “earned” with certain effort. They claims that America is where people can do anything as long as they work hard enough, whereas people with the opposite position, which I should probably mention as those don’t have a chance to get enough education and thus lead them to poverty tend to think that effort may not be paid off. Where I am getting at here is that people do have different perspective from one another based on their social class, which I find really intriguing. Prestigious school graduates would think they have earned that “privilege” by putting lots of effort regardless of the fact that many of them are ironically wealthy enough to even forget that they are blessed to be able to go to college whereas there are most enthusiastic, motivated, and talented students who simply cannot go attend school for whatever reason and think that the privilege is not really something you earn, but something you can get if you are already privileged, which in this case mean that you can go to one of the top and expensive colleges because your parents are rich. So, it seems to me that people make their arguments possibly unconsciously based on their own experience. The more successful you are, the more you attribute it to your own effort. Needless to say, vice versa.
Now, what do you think?
Here I am. This is my first blog though technically I just had a “real” first one a while ago with just a few sentences for a testing purpose. Anyways, I welcome those who are here and reading though this. 