ABSTRACT
There are probably a few people in the world, members of the international elite, who fall almost completely on the oppressor side. There are also some who are almost entirely oppressed; for example, street children in cities of the South. The form that oppression takes is affected greatly by the particular history of the group in question. The identity of Jewish people has taken shape through a history of being forced to leave one country after another. When class is considered as a cultural phenomenon, it affects relationships among individual people in the same way that other oppressions do: there is inequality and there are degrees of privilege; the privileges are for the most part invisible to those who have them. The basic common denominator among different forms of oppression is power and hierarchy; that is, class. One group of people believes they are superior over another and can back it up with “power-over”.
