The culture we are born into and brought up in influences our decisions and provides a predictable future. Certain expectations are determined based on your culture as Annie Dillard seems to explain in "How to Live" when she states "You enjoy work, and will love your grandchildren, and somewhere in there you die." Presumable predictions classify a person according to their society.
Social status of a person may be defined by their race despite the irrationality, provided that media enhances ones classification according to clothes, accessories etc. According to Donnell Alexander who wrote "Cool Like Me" being black results in an automatic classification as 'cool.' He writes, "when mainstream America looks for cool we look to black culture. Countless new developments can be called great, nifty, even keen. But, cool? That's a black thang, baby."
Social structure defines and predicts ones stance in a community as people of the upper, middle and lower class are easily distinguishable due to steretotypes associated with them according to Paul Fissels "A Touchy Subject" as he explains how the middle class has a "tendency to get very anxious...and nervous about slipping down a rung or two. On the the other hand, upper-class people love the topic to come up...proletarians generally don't mind discussions of the subject because they know they can do little to alter their class identity."
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