My feature article!!

Class Prejudice, Like It Or Not
By Lye Tee Yin Joel
PREJUDICE is the actual behaviour of those who treat others differently depending on their social situation, to “pigeon-hole someone socially, such that someone on benefits is treated unfairly compared to that of someone who works for a living”.
Individual attitudes and behaviours, systems of policies and practices that are “set up to benefit the upper classes at the expense of the lower classes”, showing extreme inequality among people of different social class.
People who generally tend to find charges of classism against “lower” classes to be unfounded or “unreasonably harsh often characterise the perceived prejudice as expressive of classist class envy”.
These people are especially “pervasive or fundamental to the society that they live in”. This will then rise up to the hot debate of social classes and causes class warfare.
Currently in the world around us, social class prejudice is can still be sighted everywhere around us in our everyday lives. Different areas of the word “class” include power, authority, wealth, working and living conditions, life-styles, life-span, education, religion, and culture.
Since early nineteenth century, the terms “working classes”’ and “middle classes” were already in common usage. People who then succeeded in “commerce, industry and other professions” would then be classified under “upper classes”, resulting in people from this class controlling the political system, and thus using their authority to “deprive” those from the “middle classes” and “working classes” of “a voice in political processes”.
Examples from the recent past include novels like “Pride and Prejudice” and “To Kill a Mockingbird”, with latter focusing more on the class and racial prejudice.
In "To Kill a Mockingbird", the theme of prejudice is shown mainly through the characters like Boo Radley, Tom Robinson and Dolphus Raymond.
Examples would be how the town of Maycomb has many different stories in how these people act even though they may not have even met them once. This could be how in Maycomb many people believe that one day when Boo was cutting out pictures from a magazine he stabbed his father; or that Dolphus Raymond decides to live and have children with a coloured women because he's drunk all the time, although he's not, he just pretends to give them a reason. These are examples of prejudice, which is equivalent to having an unsupported argument, judging everything based on your personal opinion.
Nevertheless, social prejudice is an element which cannot be removed entirely from this world as long as humans rule the earth.