Classism
Humans tend to surround themselves with people they find to be similar to them. The Northshore is a perfect example. We surround ourselves with other wealthy families and like minded people. The children are almost unable to see how the vast majority of America lives since we create this bubble around our society that’s so hard to penetrate. It’s only on vacations or far away sports games that we are able to see different types of cars and houses even though we are able to drive just 20 to 30 minutes outside of our society and see big changes. It's like our parents don't even want us to be able to look at the people living in these societies. We are divided into different classes and exclude ourselves from the others. This is classism and it’s what America is built on. Through the great gatsby and our other short stories, we read and seen examples of this separation based on wealth, race or gender. Since the U.S. values race and wealth, classism continues to occur. America w
