Daniela Dröscher creates a unique portrait of social background that offers surprising answers to fundamental issues of political engagement, the divergence of different social milieus, public perception, and the question of why class is associated with so much shame (applicable to both the very top and the very bottom). "Show Your Class" evokes a piece of German history that sheds light on political conditions from a radically subjective perspective. Dröscher employs a long-outdated term, class, as her tool. While it was once natural for the author to perceive everything through the lens of gender and race, class helps her to highlight the differences that background ultimately entails and why the sense of community has been lost. Identity and social strata feel too vague to her. From her early childhood to the present, she continues to experience this.