Class Inequality

         This "Cause of Death" is about the relationship between social inequality and health. It also explained the difference between lower income and higher income families' health. Moreover, it discusses the life expectancy for African Americans and white people. Heart disease or diabetes, accidental injury or homicide, these disease are likely to happen to poor people. The article even says in educational level, uneducated people are likely to die due to disease such as heart disease, more than educated people.Racially, African Americans are more likely than whites to die of heart disease.

This article points out that even if people are poor in the United States; these people are having better health than ordinary people in poor country. For instance, An African American female’s age at 15 in Harlem had a 65% chance of surviving to age 65; it’s the same as women in India. It depends on incomes, how much resources they have to live everyday life. Ironically, one six of U.S population lacks health insurance, including about 44% of poor people. If poor people were likely to be sick, they are the ones who need health insurance. The reasons that African American' s life expectancy is lower than whites are “high blood pressure” and “ Racism”.The life expectancy depends on how wealthy and what resources and information that can share with other people in their society you have.

     This movie points out that how each class roles in the United States.
Its also questions about the ways Americans classify each other, how our inherited social class affects our self perceptions and our expectations.These social class are classified based on race and other factors, and Its produces social distinctions in our society. Many of us take our class status for granted.This documents are emphasizing that rethink their assumptions about class in America and to know how those assumptions influence their attitudes about their fellow citizens. I think this movie can connect to the reading "media magic”. For instance, high status people have more resources and education to examine the world than people who don't have affluent resources, these educated people are less likely to talk those who don't have same status and knowledge. In the result, these are only the groups which same level and status people gather and share what they have. Moreover, those high status people might judge people who are not like them. This might mislead people like segregating other people. The United States is very huge country and has power over other countries.But the gap between the rich and the poor is very wide. Since I came to NY, I have seen many different class people at club,on the street, school and super markets more than when I was in Japan.