「階級」について

今年の早稲田大学商学部の問題です。
アメリカでは「階級」の偏見、人種に関する偏見はなくなったのか。
   Today, America has gone a long way toward an appearance of classlessness. Americans of all sorts enjoy luxuries that would have dazzled their grandparents. Social diversity has erased many of the old markers. It has become harder to read people's status in the clothes they wear, the cars they drive, the votes they cast, the god they worship, the color of their skin. The contours of class have blurred; some say they have disappeared.
   But class is still a powerful force in American life. Over the past three decades, it has come to play a greater, not lesser, role in important ways.
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アメリカのテレビ番組で興味深い企画をやっていました。白人が黒人に、黒人が白人に巧妙にメイクアップして、人々の反応をみるというものです。