Social status and culture

This week's lesson was mainly on social status and culture.  It's very intersting how social status is very important to people and how it can affect people. It's crazy how people automatically judge someone by their appearnce or the things that they have.  It seems like people are too quick to judge rather than getting to know the person.  I think it becomes a habit for some people to envy others or to think that they are better than someone that may be a lower social status. We should keep in mind that in the gospel, we are taught that we shouldn't be worldly and to be envious because that is what Satan wants us to do.  That we should be like our Savior, someone who loves everyone and doesn't judge them for what they don't have or what they do.  We are to be better people and to server them. In class, we were asked what social class we would want to be as a married couple and for our future children.  For the most part, most of us thought upper middle class or upper class.  I wouldn't mind being either of those as long as I show my children how it should be and not to be worldly.  I would want to set examples of working hard, being self reliant, and not to have everything just because you have money.  Also being in those classes, as parents wouldn't have to worry so  much about finaical strain and that would reduce stress and relationship strain as well. Someone in class mentioned how her parents were at the very bottom when they were first married and were going to school, and they were frugal and worked hard to get where they are now.  I liked that, because even though you may start at the bottom it is very possible to make it to where you want to eventually be, but it takes work and dedication.

We also talked about cultures and what it really means.  And basically we thought that culture meant values, beliefs, traditions, and behavior that is is in a group of people. Culture is a very unique and diverse.  I like that you can learn from other cultures and decide if that's somthing you would like to include into your lives or continue with your own. When I got married, I was knew that my husband and I had a lot of the same values but discovered we had different ways of doing things or had different traditions, so by getting married, I felt like we were intergrating cultures to make it our own.