  I was watching a show on social classes in America on PBS. I very much agree with them, while most Americans say we don't have class structures and conflicts - they are just plain wrong.
There are social classes here, whether we like it or not. It made me think of some of the local kids who like to say they (as in their parents) are rich (by their standards anyway). However, I was once related to old money. I once knew people who were rich (although they were not as rich as they had once been). My former step-father grew up with maids, butlers, drivers, and all that. People who actually have money and class wouldn't give these local "rich" kids the time of day.
Quite frankly, I feel sorry for the kids. One day they are going to find out they are moderate sized fish in a small pond, and won't like it when they move to a bigger pond. Quite frankly, I don't see all the hoopla about trying to act like some of the upper class people. I was watching the show, and this rich WASP was going on and on about how more people were getting rich and how it used to be. One example he used was when he went to a charity dinner, and their were actually ugly people there.
He was surprised, and wondered how THEY had gotten in. Then he said, he wasn't trying to act like a typical WASP, and wasn't acting like a snob. Yet, in the previous sentence he had bashed all who were not like him (as in rich and a WASP). God, some people only see what they want to see. 
