Marienny Ramirez
English 12
Professor: Edris McPherson
09/18/2015
“What is an American?” American is not only a famous or known country, is not only a place where people dream of living. America is the place where you will find different type of culture, in where you will share different food, clothing, tradition, holidays, religion, and even different languages. America is not only a place where you can live well and have money, but it also a place for opportunity, in where you can have the opportunity to do what you desire. But America is not only a home; it’s more than a home. It’s a place in where you can discover new places, new adventures, new friends, new careers, and new jobs. But the most important thing about America is that it has …show more content…
Labelling is a way of putting other people down in order to keep an appearance of advantage. Humans label just about anything they can, just because they have a lot more bravery than any other people.
If you lined up 100 randomly selected people from across the world, none of them would have precisely the same skin tone. The continuity of skin tone hasn't stopped humans from assigning each other to distinct skin-color categories that have no basis but nonetheless go on to determine the social, political, and economics of their members.
According to an article “Why It's Dangerous to Label People” researchers began to study the reasoning effects of labeling in the 1930s, when a person skilled in foreign languages Benjamin Whorf proposed the relativity hypothesis. According to his hypothesis, the words we use to describe what we see aren't just lazy placeholders they actually determine what we see.
I would describe myself as a hard working person that wants a place in this world. Does it matter where you come from to make a difference in this world? We are all the same, we are all humans. We just have different perspective and ideas, but we are humans, and that will never change. The society labels us since they don’t know what to call
English 12
Professor: Edris McPherson
09/18/2015
“What is an American?” American is not only a famous or known country, is not only a place where people dream of living. America is the place where you will find different type of culture, in where you will share different food, clothing, tradition, holidays, religion, and even different languages. America is not only a place where you can live well and have money, but it also a place for opportunity, in where you can have the opportunity to do what you desire. But America is not only a home; it’s more than a home. It’s a place in where you can discover new places, new adventures, new friends, new careers, and new jobs. But the most important thing about America is that it has …show more content…
Labelling is a way of putting other people down in order to keep an appearance of advantage. Humans label just about anything they can, just because they have a lot more bravery than any other people.
If you lined up 100 randomly selected people from across the world, none of them would have precisely the same skin tone. The continuity of skin tone hasn't stopped humans from assigning each other to distinct skin-color categories that have no basis but nonetheless go on to determine the social, political, and economics of their members.
According to an article “Why It's Dangerous to Label People” researchers began to study the reasoning effects of labeling in the 1930s, when a person skilled in foreign languages Benjamin Whorf proposed the relativity hypothesis. According to his hypothesis, the words we use to describe what we see aren't just lazy placeholders they actually determine what we see.
I would describe myself as a hard working person that wants a place in this world. Does it matter where you come from to make a difference in this world? We are all the same, we are all humans. We just have different perspective and ideas, but we are humans, and that will never change. The society labels us since they don’t know what to call