Writing Project 3 People immigrate from all around the world into America where they expect to find their version of the true American dream. To live in a place where freedom of opportunity is the normal and everyone is considered equal. This is not the case, while we all have the freedom of opportunity, we do not have equal opportunity. There is no normal here in America, everyone is different so everyone will be treated differently. The second paragraph of the United States Declaration of Independence states that “all men are created equal”, yet we face problems such as unequal pay and opportunities because of someone’s gender, wealth, race, education and religion, because you cannot classify everyone under the word “man”, everyone is different.
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Therefore, the term “different” isn’t used to describe a person but we use gender, race, religion and other factors to put people into groups. Simply by the way you act, talk, or look you can be categorized by today American Society. Stuart Buck talks about how in school she faced ridicule for “acting white” when she got good grades as a child even though she was a young black child (Buck, p.637, 2012). This is because when she was a kid schoolwork was looked at as a “white” activity yet it was just a little girl getting good grades in school. These groups have developed stereotypes overtime because that’s is how people class these groups, if you do your homework then you must be acting white. Stereotyping is the death of equality and powers prejudice in today’s American culture. Michael Omi states that “Blacks are associated with drugs and urban crime, Latinos with “illegal immigration” and so on”, and this is how modern day television portrays these races to their categorized groups. America is a country where everyone fits into a place even if they do not …show more content…
Just by the color of your skin people know who you are, how you act, and who you will become. This is because “film and television have been notorious in disseminating images of racial minorities which establish for audiences what these groups look like, how they behave and in essence, “who they are”” (Omi, p.634 2012). The media is very powerful on American culture and is where most people learn to behave. When someone sees these TV shows that stereotype blacks as violent drug users then that is what people will tend to believe is true. Melissa Algranati says that America is “obsessed with racial identification” which is why these stereotypes are taking over the modern-day culture. No one can be given equal rights because people treat people different depending on their gender, wealth, race, education and religion instead of their
Therefore, the term “different” isn’t used to describe a person but we use gender, race, religion and other factors to put people into groups. Simply by the way you act, talk, or look you can be categorized by today American Society. Stuart Buck talks about how in school she faced ridicule for “acting white” when she got good grades as a child even though she was a young black child (Buck, p.637, 2012). This is because when she was a kid schoolwork was looked at as a “white” activity yet it was just a little girl getting good grades in school. These groups have developed stereotypes overtime because that’s is how people class these groups, if you do your homework then you must be acting white. Stereotyping is the death of equality and powers prejudice in today’s American culture. Michael Omi states that “Blacks are associated with drugs and urban crime, Latinos with “illegal immigration” and so on”, and this is how modern day television portrays these races to their categorized groups. America is a country where everyone fits into a place even if they do not …show more content…
Just by the color of your skin people know who you are, how you act, and who you will become. This is because “film and television have been notorious in disseminating images of racial minorities which establish for audiences what these groups look like, how they behave and in essence, “who they are”” (Omi, p.634 2012). The media is very powerful on American culture and is where most people learn to behave. When someone sees these TV shows that stereotype blacks as violent drug users then that is what people will tend to believe is true. Melissa Algranati says that America is “obsessed with racial identification” which is why these stereotypes are taking over the modern-day culture. No one can be given equal rights because people treat people different depending on their gender, wealth, race, education and religion instead of their