social status

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People are judged by the type of job they have. Aperson's identity in society is mainly by their job. So when a person whose job requires not a lot of qualifications, people tend to treat them as if he/she is stupid.

You work in an office building and you are unhappy about the quality of cleanliness in your office. the windows are not perfectly spotless to the way you want it. You tell the cleaner to come to your office to discuss this and you treat him/her as if he/she is stupid.

You join in the discussion and you say to the cleaner that his/her job isn't that difficult because any stupid person can do it. So cleaning the windows to be spotless isn't hard and he/she is just lazy.

You are another office worker but you don't like how the others are talking down to the cleaner. You believe that cleaning is hard work and they should not expect so much from the cleaner.

You are the cleaner and you are vacuuming the carpet until the boss tells you to come into his/her office. This person is not your employer as your boss is the owner of the entire building so this person can't fire you. Though if he/she complains about you to your actual boss, it could lead to getting you fired. So you have to say that you are not expected to be absolutely perfect but try to deal with it in a polite manner.

Fashion sometimes gives people identity especially of wealth; there are people who look down at others by the type of clothes they wear and most of all the brand name.

You and student 2 always keep up with the current fashion and constantly showing off new clothes. Student 3 and the teacher don't care about fashion and seldom buy new clothes.

You and student 1start making fun at student 3 and the teacher for wearing last year's fashion. You both discuss how cheap their clothes are and that they have no dress sense.

You and the teacher are not really poor and are quite well off, the reason why don't don't keep up with fashion is because there are more important things in life than fashion.

You believe that fashion is a waste of money and those who need fashion to give themselves identity is an indication of a lack of intelligence. An intelligent person does more with life than a person who worries about fashion.

The teacher is a boss of a very large company and you are having a business meeting. You are all of his/her employees but you are all "Yes men," this means you agree with everything he/she says. For example, when he/she makes a bad joke and it isn't really that funny, you must laugh very hard.

You are very eager to make the boss happy; you will always ask if she/he wants tea or coffee, you always compliment on his/her clothes such as "gee sir, that is a very nice tie".

Every time the boss says something, you must say like "fantastic idea, sir," despite whether you think it is a good idea. If he/she makes a bad joke that is not that very funny at all, you must laugh very hard and very long.

You are the opposite, you don't find his/her jokes to be funny and you don't laugh at all. If you think his/her ideas to be foolish and will not be successful at all then you will tell the truth.

You are the boss of a telephone company and you are having a meeting about making your phones to be a lot more expensive. You want your employees to give some opinions if this is a good idea or not. Such as if you make mobile phones to be more expensive then will this increase your sales and profit? You must tell really bad jokes to them as well.

A celebrity whose life is constantly in the news and magazine lacks privacy having photographers following them around everywhere all of the time. The teacher is a famous singer and is on a date so this is very interesting for magazines to have on their front cover.

You and student 2 are paparazzi photographers which mean you take photos of famous people in their daily life without that person's permission. This makes you lots of money and you don't care about that person's privacy.

You are in a restaurant where the teacher is on his/her date with student 3; first you are hiding on another table secretly taking photos but then you change your plan to get closer. You go to their table and start taking photos very close to their faces because you want them to get angry to make the photos more interesting.

You are on a date with the teacher who is very famous yet you have been his/her boy/girlfriend for almost a year. You love him/her very much but you hate the lack of privacy there is in this relationship.

You are a famous singer and you are on a date with student 3 and you want to propose marriage to him/her. This is a very special moment for you and you want it to be a private moment until the paparazzi comes along and ruins it. Thus making you become very angry with them and say that you deserve the right to privacy.

The teacher was in a car accident a long time ago and she/he is in a wheel chair. People treat those who have disability as if they are stupid despite they could be very intelligent. Have you ever notice when a person is blind, some people will speak to that as if he/she is deaf by speaking loud and slowly.

You will talk to the teacher as if he/she is really stupid; for an example pretend the teacher is a baby and how you would speak to a baby.

Some people become very uncomfortable around a person who has a disability and you are very nervous to speak to the teacher.

Then there are those who try to be too helpful to those with disability; you will try to offer your assistance by pushing the wheel chair. People with disabilities like to be independent but you think he/she needs your help all of the time.

You are a new employee in the office and you want to introduce yourself to the other office workers who you will be working with from now on. You are a very friendly person and at your last job everybody likes you but you find this new job that the people here are different.

Foreign travelers usually have to pay more for certain things because people believe that western people are richer. Why should bus fare be more expensive for foreigners than for local people. Or buying a product from the market cost so much more when you are a foreigner and it is hard to try to keep to a budget when traveling.

You are the foreign traveler but you are a student studying in this country and you are not rich. You want to buy some souvenirs for your family. You are at a market because you can buy things cheaply so you want to buy some products from the teacher.

You think you are good at haggling which means to bargain; you are determine to buy the products as cheap as possible. When the teacher makes the first price to be very high, you will make your price to be really low.

You get angry very easily when trying to buy something and the shop owners are always trying to make you pay so much for them. You will actually swipe the teacher's products right off the table when he/she refuses to give you a good price.

You own a market stall and you sell all sorts of things from fake watches, cigarette lighters, laser pointers and other stuff that everyone is selling in that market. You see the students as a gold mine and you don't know they are studying and you think they're filthy rich business people. You want to bled them dry and refuse to sell anything for what they're worth.

In many western countries, they have nursing homes; when an old person becomes dependent upon the family to be taken care of, they are sent to this place. Families often don't live with the grandparents and when they need to be taken care of, they don't want to do this. So they will put them into a place which is similar to a hospital and they will seldom visit the grandparent.

Your life is too busy to worry about your father/mother for you to take of as he/she constantly needs help to go to the bathroom and other things. You really don't want the burden of having to care of him/her and just want someone else to take care of him/her.

You are the wife/husband of the first student and you never liked living with your mother/father in law because he/she is always complaining about everything. You are really glad that your wife/husband is making this decision.

You are the grandchild of the teacher and you really love him/her but you don't understand what is happening. Why is he/she no longer going to live with you anymore? Why is mother and father sending him/her to this depressing place?

You are arriving with your family to the nursing home but you weren't told that you will be staying here for the rest of your life. This is shocking; all of those years that you have supported your family and in return this is what they are going to repay you by - to live out the rest of your days in this dreary gray world surrounded by dying old people.

Sometimes companies give jobs to those who are very attractive but usually jobs that are customer-service related such as receptionist. Though in this situation, a company has given the teacher a job as a paramedic because it deals with people. But the teacher maybe attractive but not very smart to be in this position.

You are a car accident victim and you are bleeding to death that if you don't get medical attention right now, you will die. You must be screaming in pain and crying that you don't want to die.

You are also a victim of the car accident but you are not seriously injured at all so you are comforting the first student. You notice that the teacher is not very good at this job and you criticise him/her for being so stupid.

You are the second paramedic and also you are hired for being attractive so you also don't know how to do this job correctly. You don't know the names of the equipment and you get sick when you see all of the blood.

You arrive on the scene but the first thing you do is make sure your hair is right. If you are female than make sure your lipstick is on and make sure that you look good in the ambulance's mirror. You are also very worried that blood will get on your clothes so you don't want to get too close to the first student.

In this scenario men are considered lower than women; it is the man's job to clean the house and look after the children while the wife goes out to make money. This is a home where the father spends his day hand on foot while the wife comes home late from work and expects her meal ready for her.

You are the wife and you have just come home from the office and you say to your husband "where is my dinner." If your dinner isn't ready by the time you get home then you become very angry and abuse him. You hit your husband and say that husbands should show their respect to their wives.

You are the eldest child and you don't like seeing your father being treated so badly by your mother. You stand up to your mother and tell her that she should leave.

You are the youngest child and very close to your father who is very nice to you but to your mother you are very afraid of. When your mother gets angry, you hide behind your father.

You are the loving husband to an angry and abusive wife, you try so hard to please her but she expects perfection from you. You then tell her that a man wasn't created just to please his wife and is just as smart as a woman.

Homeless people are treated lesser than a poor person that in fact less than an animal. This scenario is in a poor area in New York city where there are a lot of homeless people.

You own a shop and the teacher is an old man/woman who is about to die. You don't care about this because you want him/her to just go away from the footpath outside of your store.

You are the partner of the store and you too are tired of so many homeless people wandering around your area making the shops look bad. Instead of helping the teacher or calling an ambulance, you kick him/her away from your shop and say "go somewhere else and die."

You are a homeless personl and you are trying to get help for the teacher who is about to die but no one seems to care. You just want the shop owners to call for an ambulance but they just want you to leave.

You have been living on the streets for almost ten years and you are really old, you are also extremely sick that if you don't get to a hospital, you will die. Though you won't get there and you will die right on the footpath and no one but your friend cares that you are dead.