Презентация на тему Life in the USA

ladder within their lifetime or from one generation to

the next.

children of poor families become rich?
Researchers found

that Britain appeared to have one of the worst records for social mobility in the developed world.

is a middle class country.
The middle class ideal is

portrayed frequently on television.

of the middle class might have a vacation home,

many televisions and electronic gadgets, motor boats or even airplanes.

...The family, white or black, living in a spotlessly clean house with two or three children and two cars, possibly a family pet. One or both spouses will be a professional or will work for a corporation.

More than half of American marriages end in

divorce. People often live together without being married. Divorced people also remarry and mix children of previous marriages to form rather large households. All these living arrangements are becoming acceptable to the vast American middle class.

up of the poor. Poverty, though difficult to measure,

is a real problem in the United States.

Major social welfare organizations exist, but they, like the government, have had little success in eradicating poverty.

society” exists, though most Americans have little contact with

these people.

formal evening events designed to raise money for charities.

They are wealthy people, mostly in the Northeast, who can trace their family lines back to the English or Dutch Colonial days.