"Honoring" the Working Class

In class last week, we took an in depth look at social classes in society. We watched a movie that took us into the lives of people from different classes and also saw how they interacted with each other and felt about each other. There were a few segments of the movie that showed people impersonating or "honoring" blue collar people. They did this by stereotyping them and acting like them. For example there was a "Hun Fest" held in Baltimore, and a couple of "yuppies" going to "dive bars" as they called them. After this though, they just went back to their normal lives, I did not see this as "honoring" the middle class. This is as I said before, stereotyping. They acted upon these stereotypes they've seen in pop-culture or that they've heard of and they believe that this gives them some sort character. Though, this is pure delusion, just because they impersonate someone doesn't give them character. They go back to their normal lives after shortly experiencing theirs' through stereotyping, this can be seen as offensive by people of the working class. Its just like me and my friends would impersonate our favorite characters from tv or film when we were children. We would wish to have certain traits that these characters had and acted like we did but in reality it was just false.