Personal Narrative: My Gained Social Status

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My ascribed social statuses are that I am a brown skin 20 year old Hispanic female. My achieved social status is that I am a psychology major in my second year of college. Based on my social status I have a sum of expected behaviors or roles I should practice like studying for my classes, paying for my bills as a 20 year old should, speaking fluent Spanish, and social extrovert. However in many of my social statues I have some role conflict. For being a shade darker people believe that I should be loud and unprofessional or a different ethnicity. For example, within my work environment a lot of customers are Spanish speakers; however whenever they approach me they assume by the color of my skin that I do not speak Spanish but when they see

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