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...... Class Discrimination
The notion that we can identify individuals who are superior based on an agreed-upon classification is not new. This belief is called classism. For a long time, the color of a persons skin and other physical characteristics provided a means for easy classification. In early America, for example, black skin indicated that you were likely a slave, and thus automatically designated to a lower social and economic class than those with white skin. However, in actuality and in simple terms, there are only two classes: the oppressed and the oppressor, the powerful and the powerless, or the haves and the have-nots. This hierarchy of oppression is elastic, at times seeing the Irish, Jewish, homosexuals, and other minority groups as the oppressed, but it has historically been highly linked to race above any other classification
There is not much that can be done to eliminate the biological differences between ethnic groups, but society can change the differences created by our own political and economic systems, and some psychologists even argue that classism can be treated as a mental health issue (Dobbins & Skillings, 2000). Classism, therefore, becomes like a double-edged sword and both the oppressors and the oppressed

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