22 iul. 2010

social ranking

I just realized today that after the revolution in 1989 Romanians have felt a deep unbalance in their society's ranking and due to major social changes their expectations changed. I remember that when I was in high-school not everybody had a mobile phone. So, if a boy would have one, he would be perceived as a wealthy boy. While in our days no one in their right mind would judge or should judge a person based on it's mobile phone. That is because no matter how poor you are you can definitely afford an expensive phone. Also, the next thing was the car. First it was owning a car, now it's the type of car. And funny enough girls find it socially high hierarchy if it's a big car. However if you look at technical specs you are definitely going to find out it's not really a great car. So, I am not talking about superficial judgement, but rather about social ranking based on superficial property. And, the more you think about it, the more you will realize, we have definitely lost our sense of social ranking, which I don't know if it was ever good enough. I must say it's incredible to see this society go from a totally equal to an unbalanced one with major disproportion between social hierarchy. It's not a hierarchy based on true classification, but rather an interpretation of one's or other's tastes and opinions. In other words social ranking today depends on superficial judgement. 

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