Success & Social Class

I would say that at a young adult age, just leaving the nest i am 25% responsible for my success and my parents are 50% responsible and my educators are 25% responsible for my success. As the years go on the responsibility shifts over to me until it is 75% my responsibility to either succeed or not but there will always be that 25% that belongs to my parents because of the social class they raised me in and the beliefs i developed as well as the opportunities available there.

Changing my social class used to be easy 50 years ago but now days it is not impossible but more difficult. The social class that one is raised in has everything to do with how successful they will become. Social class sets the programming of the individuals beliefs and behaviors. To change these is to change the core of the individual. This is possible with lots of effort but not likely.

For example, I grew up in a lower class family right at the poverty line. We had our most basic needs met and that is all we knew. Camping and back packing was and still is our way of vacationing. A friend of mine came from an upper class family where she had everything at her finger tips. When she was an exchange student in another country this was the first exposure i had to the possibility of being an exchange student. She also took me on a trip to Disney Land and we stayed in a nice hotel eating out at nice resturants. I was not aware of this kind of vacationing. It was really nice! I believe the lower class is not aware, or does not have the same opportunities available so they think and act in accordance with their class beliefs.