Classless Cats

When I first heard the title of this book I immediately thought of how many in America believe that they live in a classless society. Clearly this is not accurate. This is also exemplified in the book. Bettie discusses how, often, upper class students are much less aware of their and their classmates socio-economic status and thus often disregard their many advantages such as high cultural capital. This in turn causes strife between these groups. Like when girls think kids from "bad families", seeming to nearly be synonymous with poor, are determined to be less apt or to have less desire to succeed, when in fact they may be working extra hard to succeed along with supporting themselves. By disregarding this advantages and disadvantages we blind ourselves to class and in turn further disadvantage those who are already in the worst of situations, instead of working to equalize them and give them fair and equitable opportunities.