Having the opportunity of growing up in Irvine California creates a pretty unique and awesome experience that can carry throughout life . Irvine has developed into a prime location to live in Southern California because we locate only an hour outside of Los Angles, minutes away from many beautiful beaches, and a few hours away from mountain ranges and deserts. Irvine can be most commonly recognized for its prestigious public schools creating endless amounts of opportunities ranging through education and job opportunities. Although Irvine may have the stereotype to be a perfect utopia, or so called “bubble” away from the real world, a majority of people tend to look down on the accomplishments the city and people have established. Vincent Parrillo,
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However, people who live in Irvine do not recognize this because they do not know any differently. The idea of inequality between communities leads to lack of socialization creating constant tension between Irvine and other outside individuals supports Parrillo’s ideas on the reasons prejudice occurs and leads into Harris and Devon’s main point on how society automatically places frames around different groups of people, therefore blinding the typical Irvine citizen from realizing how much opportunities they truly have compared to others.
People come from many diverse backgrounds each having unique key values therefore, assimilation between opposing or different cultures can be hard to understand and accept. In the essay, “Causes of Prejudice” written by Parrillo, defines the different types of prejudice that occur. One main reason he talks about is ethnocentrism; “a generalized rejection of all outgroups on the basis of an in-group focus” (Parrillo 505). Ethnocentrism coincides with prejudice by out casting a particular group but differs by judging the everyone …show more content…
In Harris and Carbado’s essay “Loot or Find: Fact or Frame?” establishes the concept of having pre-established conscious and unconscious beliefs seeing what we want and expect to see instead of the true fact. Most of the time we do not realize that creating frames limit our perspective on the true facts in particular situation. The example in the essay portrays two imagines, one of an African American man and the other a white couple, both carrying trash bags of stuff through floods from the aftermath of hurricane Katrina. The captions that went along with each photo were claimed be racially biased. For instance, the African American man was claimed to be “looting” while the white couple “found” the items they had. The controversy came about how were these words chosen, by assumption or fact creating the primary issue of basing people off of un-factual information. This can relate to people from Irvine who create frames unknowingly for every aspect of their lives. Irvine often frames people in poorer areas to be less important and inferior, even though this not the fact, “frames shape our perceptions of the facts” (Harris and Carbado 533). One will never be able to fully comprehend the true meaning of a situation because of challenging and “enormously difficult to incorporate “just the facts”” (Harris and Carbado 537).
However, people who live in Irvine do not recognize this because they do not know any differently. The idea of inequality between communities leads to lack of socialization creating constant tension between Irvine and other outside individuals supports Parrillo’s ideas on the reasons prejudice occurs and leads into Harris and Devon’s main point on how society automatically places frames around different groups of people, therefore blinding the typical Irvine citizen from realizing how much opportunities they truly have compared to others.
People come from many diverse backgrounds each having unique key values therefore, assimilation between opposing or different cultures can be hard to understand and accept. In the essay, “Causes of Prejudice” written by Parrillo, defines the different types of prejudice that occur. One main reason he talks about is ethnocentrism; “a generalized rejection of all outgroups on the basis of an in-group focus” (Parrillo 505). Ethnocentrism coincides with prejudice by out casting a particular group but differs by judging the everyone …show more content…
In Harris and Carbado’s essay “Loot or Find: Fact or Frame?” establishes the concept of having pre-established conscious and unconscious beliefs seeing what we want and expect to see instead of the true fact. Most of the time we do not realize that creating frames limit our perspective on the true facts in particular situation. The example in the essay portrays two imagines, one of an African American man and the other a white couple, both carrying trash bags of stuff through floods from the aftermath of hurricane Katrina. The captions that went along with each photo were claimed be racially biased. For instance, the African American man was claimed to be “looting” while the white couple “found” the items they had. The controversy came about how were these words chosen, by assumption or fact creating the primary issue of basing people off of un-factual information. This can relate to people from Irvine who create frames unknowingly for every aspect of their lives. Irvine often frames people in poorer areas to be less important and inferior, even though this not the fact, “frames shape our perceptions of the facts” (Harris and Carbado 533). One will never be able to fully comprehend the true meaning of a situation because of challenging and “enormously difficult to incorporate “just the facts”” (Harris and Carbado 537).