Bruce Jenner's Transition: How Many Americans

Do you ever see someone on the street and that looks a little different than an average American person and think they are weird? Well this is what most Americans do they look at someone who is dissimilar and they automatically assume they are bad people just because they are not the same. For instance, my friend is transgender and is going through the process of coming out to his parents and has been contemplating telling them since his freshmen year. And is afraid of what they say because they have that close minded American attitude. In my opinion Americans should be more open minded to people who are different and not discriminate against them so that everyone can live in peace and harmony. Today I will discuss three major civilization issues that Americans have because they are not more understanding of people who are different. These …show more content…
There are several people in America who have this issue and get shamed for what they feel that they are. According to Bruce Jenner’s Transition: How Many Americans Are Transgender? (an article found on livescience.com), “The most frequently cited estimate is that 700,000 people in the United States, or about 0.2 to 0.3 percent of the population, are transgender, though some experts say the true number is probably greater than that”(livescience). Hence any percent of population should be considered, no matter how different they are.
Furthermore, Americans look at people of a different race or have a different accent as some type of foreigner and fear them just because they are not the same. People of different race usually take their view offensively because there are 37% of different raced people that are American citizens but Americans who were here first still see a foreign person (infoplease). This is just a single type of group that Americans just seem to