In “Class in America” Mantsios argues against what he claims are the myth of a classless society in America. He provides evidence regarding the rising socioeconomic gap between the rich and the poor in America and the huge differences in amounts of the top 1% of Americans and the rest of Americans. However, Mantsios arguement is flawed. First of all, his argument assumes that having a society that is not concerned with class is a problem. I don’t. I think that the lack of preoccupation with what class people are in in America only promotes the American creed and is what unites this country. America is a country of immigrants, people who were dissatisfied with the class society back in their old countries so they decided to come to America where they can live and work without worry of social standing. Mantsios claims that class standing is the most important factor in determining your future. However, as we saw in “The Three Lessons of Joe Flom”, anyone can be anyone so long as they try hard and have the right values, the right attitude and look for opportunity. Mantsios’s choice of profile were also biased as well. As a Queens native, I can attest that Bob Farrell’s classmates were not only the son’s of carpenters, teachers, and postal clerks, but of doctors, successful small buisness owners, and lawyers as well, as I attended school in Queens and I have friends who attended school in Queens and the diversity of family backgrounds and socioeconomic standing was great. Albeit all our different backgrounds, our American non-concern with socio-economic standing did not impede us from meeting with each other and probably allowed us to make many friendships that might not have been possible in a more class-structured society. Finally, Mantsios arguement that women and people of color are discriminated against had the least definitive evidence to it and yet was the most