Class is not one of the tiny handful of legally-protected, no-discrimination-allowed categories of people in the U.S. Gender, race, and religion are.
Well, depending on what U.S. state one lives in, sexual orientation may or may not be. Not to mention things like military experience are on the list. So the question is, I suppose, exactly what factors are at work?
Class is brought up more often when discussing university admissions than employment, it seems.
Is there even a consensus of what classes are, in the U.S.? (UK also has classes. I have no idea what they are; I do know that they're different, and a bit more distinct than here.)
These questions were discussed fairly in-depth both in my last post about classism and the recently metafandomed posts on classism and Supernatural.
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Date: 2008-05-27 10:25 am (UTC)Well, depending on what U.S. state one lives in, sexual orientation may or may not be. Not to mention things like military experience are on the list. So the question is, I suppose, exactly what factors are at work?
Class is brought up more often when discussing university admissions than employment, it seems.
Is there even a consensus of what classes are, in the U.S.? (UK also has classes. I have no idea what they are; I do know that they're different, and a bit more distinct than here.)
These questions were discussed fairly in-depth both in my last post about classism and the recently metafandomed posts on classism and Supernatural.