Essay On Society Is A Classless Society

On the fourth of July, 1776, the United States Declaration of Independence was signed. In the Declaration of Independence some core American values are included, and one of them is that “all men are created equal” (UShistory.org). The idea that all men are equal suggests that no distinction should be made between them, thus also not on the basis of their economic and social status and from this idea the ideology of a classless society emerged. The ideology of a classless society implies that American society should be free from the division of people into social classes. In this essay I want to argue that the idea that American society still is a classless society is absolutely absurd, as people get classified based on many aspects such as their wealth, level of education and social status, and that the fact that many Americans still hold on to the ideology of a classless society is a sign of complete obstinacy.

The classification of people into different classes is a practice that has existed since ancient times, when the

However, there are still many Americans who desperately hold on the ideology of a classless society. The fact that so many Americans continue to believe in the idea of classlessness is a clear sign of obstinacy towards the problems American society faces, as Vance Packard notes “[Americans] certainly are the world’s most self-proclaimed equalitarian people” (12). The question of social class is a very sensitive subject in the United States; for example a man from New Haven, Connecticut, “responded to a direct question about the social classes in his town … by saying, ‘I don’t like to think too much about this’” (Packard 13). Instead of facing them Americans would rather turn a blind eye to problems like poverty and inequality in their society, as this does not coincide with the “American Creed and the American Dream” (Packard