{"id":47241,"date":"2012-01-29T09:43:45","date_gmt":"2012-01-29T14:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/?p=47241"},"modified":"2012-12-26T16:07:36","modified_gmt":"2012-12-26T21:07:36","slug":"class-conflict-is-the-new-race-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/article-of-the-day\/01\/29\/class-conflict-is-the-new-race-conflict\/","title":{"rendered":"Class Conflict Is The New Race Conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Article:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.good.is\/post\/in-an-ows-era-americans-are-a-lot-more-aware-of-class-tension\/\">In an OWS Era, Americans Are Much More Aware of Class Tension<\/a> by Nona Willis Aronowitz in Good News.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Text:<\/strong> It looks like Occupy Wall Street&#8217;s message has resonated even after Zuccotti Park cleared out. A new Pew Research Center <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewsocialtrends.org\/2012\/01\/11\/rising-share-of-americans-see-conflict-between-rich-and-poor\/\">survey reveals<\/a> that two-thirds of the public believes there are \u201cvery strong\u201d or \u201cstrong\u201d conflicts between America&#8217;s rich and poor\u2014a number that&#8217;s up 19 percentage points since 2009. According to the survey, income inequality now trumps tensions arising from race or immigration\u2014popular answers only a few years before. <\/p>\n<p>Younger people, women, Democrats and African Americans are the most likely to sense class warfare. But the group receiving the most dramatic wakeup call? White people; the number of whites who saw class as a dividing factor increased by 22 percent. That makes sense\u2014people who normally enjoy a higher societal status are more likely to experience a loss of that status, leaving them more attuned to post-recession class tension.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s clear that the economic downturn, and pushback in the form of the Occupy movement, have introduced concepts like &#8220;wealth gap&#8221; and &#8220;income inequality&#8221; into the popular lexicon. But what&#8217;s interesting is that we still believe this chasm is temporary. While 46 percent of us believe that most rich people \u201care wealthy mainly because they know the right people or were born into wealthy families,\u201d nearly as many think they&#8217;ve earned it. Forty-three percent say wealthy people became rich \u201cmainly because of their own hard work, ambition or education,\u201d results that have stayed virtually the same since 2008. The implication here is that, yeah, there&#8217;s a clash between rich and poor, but there&#8217;s still a chance to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps, too.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it&#8217;s an indication of Americans&#8217; undying optimism; maybe it&#8217;s our utter denial of a solidifying caste system. But these results certainly reveal our ambivalence about how wealth should be distributed in our country\u2014or at least our hesitance to place any blame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Article: In an OWS Era, Americans Are Much More Aware of Class Tension by Nona Willis Aronowitz in Good News. The Text: It looks like Occupy Wall Street&#8217;s message has resonated even after Zuccotti Park cleared out. A new Pew Research Center survey reveals that two-thirds of the public believes there are \u201cvery strong\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[259],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Class Conflict Is The New Race Conflict - Prose Before Hos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Article: In an OWS Era, Americans Are Much More Aware of Class Tension by Nona Willis Aronowitz in Good News. 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