Class

** __ SOCIAL CLASS __ ** What is //Social Class// ?

 Social class is divided people's level of economic and cultural. The social class usually divided into three different levels: upper class(rich, high education,etc.), middle class and lower class. People in the social have different identities, different wealth, lifestyle and different education, they will use these elements to distribute people in different levels. All in all social class is divided by people's economic, education, family, etc.

**[|Marxist] Perspective**: "Class" in the history the glocs in the social have different status, the production will be different, in the social this labor organization's effect will be different so that people's distribution of property will be different.

**[|Communism] Perspective**: Class is not always there, in the earliest social because the production is too low so that the social class does not has the factor to appear. The earliest class apper in the slavery period.

Contents

__1.Social class in different country __ (1.1) Chines (1.2) Indian (1.3 ) Japanese (1.4) Korean (1.5 ) United States(Capitalist social class)

__2. Connection with //Anthem// __ (2.1) Social Class in //Anthem// (2.2) Quotes(Examples)

Social Class in different country

**Chinese** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">In the feudal system China, people were divided into six classes. There are four nobility(King, Dukes, the Great Men, Scholars. The other two are Commoners and Slaves.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">After abolish the emperor, the Great Men and the Scholars were not noble classes any longer. The scholars were mainly from the gentry, they had their own tract or they were educated and rich but they were not nobility. The businessmen were not the nobility because they do not actually produce anything. But a rich businessman can buy a tract, even buy a good education.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**India** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">The[| Indian caste system] was one of the oldest and the most important systems of social class. It divided the social skill and the qualification. Indian' s social class is divided by their family. If an Indian was born in a noble family this Indian will be a high class in the social, but if an Indian in a poor family this person will be in the low class in the social. So they can not change their social class by themselves even they try very hard.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Japanese** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Japanese's social class is a very feudal environment. The king in Japan as a god in Japanese's eyes until World War II. May be it was influenced by China and the lack of arable land, Japanese social class ranked farmer and the other bourgeois.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Korean** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">The Korean's classes are focus on the education, family education or the clan, wealth. These are the social class in Korean.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|**United States(Capitalist social class)**] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Social class in America is not very clear, a lot of American divided into three level(rich, middle class, poverty). People always according to people' education, income and the occupation.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">The American in different class have a big obstacle. People will communicate with the people who in other class as less as they can.

<span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Connection with //Anthem//

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Social Class in //Anthem<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; height: 287px; width: 188px;"> //** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">This novel which was written by Ayn Rand is about the society and people' s conflict. The society in this novel control all of the people. The council control their life(when people born until they die), the council decide their schedule people do everything follow it and repeat it everyday, even they cannot have their own thought. They are born for the social and service the social. The Council of Vocations is the highest class in the social, people are controlled by them.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Quotes(Example)** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**1.**"Dar not choose in your minds the work you would like to do when you leave the Home of the Students. You shall do that which the Council of Vocations shall prescribe for you."

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">At that time Equality is a student who is thinking about what he can do after leave the Home of the Student, but the teachers said to them they cannot choose what they do when they leave the Home of Student. It can show that, in that society control all of the people. It also means people in that society cannot choose their life, even they are thought to be controlled.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**2.**"This was the only thing which moved, for the lips of the oldest did not move as they said:"Street Sweeper.""

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">The Council of Vocation let Equality to be a "Street Sweeper", they know Equality love learning and they are curiosity. It is so ironic that they all know Equality are better to be a scholar, but they let them to be a Street Sweeper

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**3.**"Thus must all men live until they are forty. At forty, they are worn out. At forty, they are sent to the Home of the Useless, where the Old Ones live."

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">This also can show the society in the book is the main controller. They control when they should to anything. Even they decide when the people should die. Although in the society have different classes, all of the classes should follow the council.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**4.**"And each of the men have one of the women assigned to them by the Council of Eugenics. Children are born each winter, but women never see their children and children never know their parents."

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">On that society people who save at the Time of Mating, they will sent to the City Palace of Mating. It means they have sex when the Council allow. And when the children are born they do not know their parent any longer. These can show how autocracy that social is!

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**5.**"There is fear hanging in the air of the sleeping halls, and in the air of the streets. Fear walks through the City, fear without name, without shape. All men feel it and none dare to speak."

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">All of the people in that society are fear, in people' s heart the society is darkness. They feel afraid with anything in that society because they do not have their ego.

<span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">The different Social Class between //Anthem// and the reality society

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">In the novel the council is the highest class in that society and everyone is controlled by it. It means that social class is divided by the degree.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">In the reality society, the social class is divided by people' s droit, family, education, etc..

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