From the first time we lay our eyes on a person, we notice the color of their skin and the clothes they wear, and right at that second we base our judgment off of that. Although we have made some progress regarding discrimination against a person’s race, some seem to be stuck with the same mentality as those who lived before us a hundred years ago. People still tend to base their judgements off the stereotypes they hear about a certain race and allow it to dictate how they perceive a person. That feeling of being victimized and taunted not only for my race but for the simple fact that I was a Muslim has left a scar on me. Because it is not something that I can take control of. Though I was born in the United States, I was raised in Jordan until
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Shapiro mentions that “wealth is different from income, and, most importantly, families use wealth in very different ways than they use income” (76). Wealth is a social status and income is the amount of money one is bringing in on a steady basis. As human beings “wealth changes our conception of racial inequalities, its nature and magnitude, origins and transition of wealth” (Shapiro 77). It shapes how a person acts and how they carry themselves. One who is wealthy may feel more above than one who is not, for instance. Shapiro also mentions that “the leading ideological and scholarly answer is that wealth emerges from hard work, disciplined consumption, saving and wise investment, with perhaps some luck thrown in” (77). For the White people in America, wealth did not emerge from hard work, but rather stolen from the Native Americans. Hard work would be those who had to put forth a great amount of effort just to survive, even when they felt that there was little to no opportunity for them. Black People, for example, have once felt they had no opportunity in the “land of the free,” but still try their best to achieve a normal life. White and Black people do not have equal opportunities nor will they ever unless we unite and try to fix our social structure. That does not just go for the White and Black people, but also for the Latinos, Arabs and Asians who have to go through the same struggles everyday, from finding jobs to having homeownership to secure some type of wealth for their future and the next
Shapiro mentions that “wealth is different from income, and, most importantly, families use wealth in very different ways than they use income” (76). Wealth is a social status and income is the amount of money one is bringing in on a steady basis. As human beings “wealth changes our conception of racial inequalities, its nature and magnitude, origins and transition of wealth” (Shapiro 77). It shapes how a person acts and how they carry themselves. One who is wealthy may feel more above than one who is not, for instance. Shapiro also mentions that “the leading ideological and scholarly answer is that wealth emerges from hard work, disciplined consumption, saving and wise investment, with perhaps some luck thrown in” (77). For the White people in America, wealth did not emerge from hard work, but rather stolen from the Native Americans. Hard work would be those who had to put forth a great amount of effort just to survive, even when they felt that there was little to no opportunity for them. Black People, for example, have once felt they had no opportunity in the “land of the free,” but still try their best to achieve a normal life. White and Black people do not have equal opportunities nor will they ever unless we unite and try to fix our social structure. That does not just go for the White and Black people, but also for the Latinos, Arabs and Asians who have to go through the same struggles everyday, from finding jobs to having homeownership to secure some type of wealth for their future and the next