After watching Sam's hilarious videos in class today, I thought that I'd add some youtube humor to my blog as well. Over the course of Silas Lapham, we see the Laphams push their new money against the Corey's old money. The Corey's reject the idea of the Lapham's newly found wealth, and seem to believe that they can never be equals. I find it interesting that the amount of actual money that either families have is not really what mattershttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTTEpRq9bmE. Instead, the origin of the money is what seems to be important.

I then began thinking about our society today and whether or not the idea of new or old money still applied...then I remembered this clip of this trashy MTV show I happened to see a few weeks ago. The show, "You're Cut Off" is about rich, spoiled women who are cut off from their families money. Even though these girls are just short of, if not millionaires, are they classy? What would the Corey's say about them? Does their money represent new or old, and aren't they trashy even tough they represent a higher social class?

See for yourself!