Middle Class Reflection

Growing up in middle class I never really gave thought to the things I we had from a financial standpoint. Money was never an issue so things like “we cannot afford that” or “that is too much” were never used. I was very sheltered when it came to how much things like health insurance or car insurance cost. Through the Hidden Values and Perspective chart , the game of life, and the Morgan Spurlock Minimum Wage Video where he lived on minimum wage for a month I was able to see that for plenty of people those are daily problems. These pieces really challenged my beliefs because I was not aware of how people in poverty thought about and what their concerns are surrounding Food, Family Structure, and Time.

My beliefs were challenged in a positive light because I had not

The name of the chart is “Hidden Values and perspectives of People Living in Poverty, Middle Class, and Wealth”. I really think this is a well suited title because these outlooks were so hidden from me even though they were in plain view. If I had filled this out on what I thought before seeing these texts it would have shown how sheltered my views on poverty were.Two boxes that caught my eye right away are family structure and and food. I would not have thought that the family structure would be matriarchal. To me having the father in charge just seemed like that was the social norm. I knew that there obviously were times where that was not the case especially coming from a household where I only have one parent alive. Never would I have thought that an entire social class would hold that as their norm to have it reversed.This definitely challenged what i believed because I did not know that this was so