According to Paul Fussell and his essay, class is a “sensitive topic.” The class is often referred to as “any group of plants or animals.” However, when it comes to defining class as a social distinction, the word becomes more complex. The structure of social classes has remained “murky” over the years and, for most Americans, extremely complicated. In today's society, social class has become increasingly complex, but it has never been set up in such a way that Americans feel comfortable in their own skin. Today, when it comes to social class, people tend to get angry about the topic. They tend to "fix their ties first and take a look at their cuffs to see how far the fraying has progressed." In RH Tawney's book Equality, the word "class is full of unpleasant associations, so that dwelling on it may be interpreted as the symptom of a perverse mind and a jaundiced spirit." However, some go so far as to call class thinking “America's forbidden thinking.” Since the Industrial Revolution, social classes have been fixed with names that distinguish one social class from another. For example, names that have stuck with Americans today are lower class, middle class, upper class, working class, and so on. However, when talking about a “sensitive topic,” how a person acts, based on the amount of anger or irritation, says a lot about their social class. One tendency that middle-class people tend to show when questioned on the topic is to feel very anxious and nervous, suggesting that they might “slip down a peg or two.” In contrast, upper-class individuals liked to be asked about their social class because they like to flaunt it. “The more attention given to them, the better off they seem to be.” Offspring...... medium level...... has a very prestigious but low paid job. Their prestige places them in a higher class, but their income places them in another. In America, the extent to which people become more educated, they can earn more money and be able to occupy more prestigious positions. Prestigious locations are the other factor that, in addition to higher education and comfortable income, influences an individual to identify with a certain social class. This helps give the lower social classes hope to better themselves, as well as work a little harder so they aren't hanging by a thread or two, preparing to move down to the lowest social class. Social class is still a sensitive topic, but still very “murky”. Societies have difficulty integrating with each other because they don't know where to go. If we really eliminated social classes, we would be better off in the future??