Breaking out of your social class

This week we've been discussing social classes and how they interact. I don't believe that people from different social classes typically interact with each other due to the distinct boundaries we draw between each social class. It's difficult for people to interact and get along with each other when they live completely different lives and value things in different ways. For example, low income families spend the little money they have on basic neccessities such as food, clothes, and housing. They will buy the cheapest items they can and not really care what brand they are or the quality of them. Rich people however will spend as much money as they can on things they don't need such as designer clothes, mansions, cars, and vacations. Therefore its difficult for these people to see eye to eye since they have such different values and lifestyles. Its also rare for people of different social classes to come into contact because they typically live around people who have as much money as they do. There are instances however where they can come into contact such as when people volunteer at soup kitchens like i did this week at the Uptown Cafe downtown. I really enjoyed meeting and talking to people from a different social class than me that I wouldn't usually get the chance to meet.