It is interesting that at nearly every social gathering it won't be long before the conversation turns to occupation and everyone in the conversation is determining economic pecking order based on employment. For most people a stay at home mom isn't as interesting as a medical doctor and yet both spend all day trying to care for people. A second grade teacher won't get the same attention as a university professor who has authored two books on international relations. And yet the second grade teacher probably settles more disputes in a day than the professor does in a decade. It has at least something to do with the salaries they draw.
Economic differences continue to be the most significant divide in our culture.
But we aren't done, there are religious differences. Probably the biggest for us currently is between conservative and liberal. And all of that without even mentioning differences over sexuality and interpretations about sexual preference. Too often Christianity has been mistaken for a balloon stomp and those who don't believe the right things or whose lives are in some way unacceptable are told that they are sinners and that they need to change in order to be loved by God. The book of Acts suggests that Christians behave more like the second group of children.