The decline of the immigrant class

In today's America, class solidification is a very, very serious problem, even so serious that most Americans can accept this terrible state.

It is very difficult to get out of the class quagmire in America. Take American elite schools as an example: among American elite schools, only 9% students come from the bottom 50%, and as many as 74% students come from the top 25%.

"My grandparents who brought me up didn't even graduate from high school, and few people in our family went to college. All kinds of statistics will show that the prospects of children like me are bleak-the lucky ones among us don't have to be reduced to receiving social assistance; Those unfortunate people may die of overdose of heroin-dozens of people died in my hometown last year alone. " -from "Elegy of Country People"

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In the United States, the contradiction between "elite" and "grassroots" was fully exposed as early as the 20 16 US presidential election.

There is a report that analyzes the American election, focusing on why Trump won. The author of this report collected more than120,000 questionnaires. He found that Trump's supporters are mainly concentrated in communities with poor health, poor social mobility, and fewer immigrants and ethnic groups.

These poor voters feel that they have been abandoned by the "elite" and become sad victims of social change, so there is great anger in their hearts. Eventually, this anger broke out in the election. They chose Trump that the elite might despise, and they didn't consider the consequences. This is just a way of developing anger.

Trump's coming to power actually shows how serious the class solidification in the United States has reached, doesn't it?