Jumping across the class divide in the US can definitely engender culture shock. I'm reminded of a passage by Barack Obama: "We have to figure out how to live

Jumping across the class divide in the US can definitely engender culture shock. I'm reminded of a passage by Barack Obama: "We have to figure out how to live together, and we have to figure out if we can do this free of caste systems and the inevitable conflict that the kind of social stratification that has existed for most of human history creates. That genie is out. We’re past the time in which some peasant in a feudal system is starving and looks up on the palace and there’s a king somewhere, and the peasant thinks, Yeah, that’s okay. Now all those peasants have phones and they can see how the lord of the manor is eating, and some of them are going to say, “Why him instead of me?” The willingness to accept one’s fate or lot in life because of your skin color or gender or religion or sexual orientation—that you are going to accept being less than someone else—that’s over." https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/11/why-obama-fears-for-our-democracy/617087/ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/11/why-obama-...