As I have grown throughout, I learned early on that there were differences among people in world. Whether that difference be class, religion, skin color, or gender I knew people were treated differently based on the few things we did not have in common. As it is written in the book we have been studying from for the last month, Race, class, and gender in the United States: An integrated study, “The differences in child rearing ideology plays a significant role in how these children view themselves in relation to the world” (181-182). For me the idea of class and religion played an enormous role in my childhood. I experienced life in the upper class in a third world nation, as well as life in the lower class here in America. I have
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Soon after I realized we were only going there because my mother couldn’t afford to feed us at the time. For the first time I saw the world from the other side, the side of the beggar. I realized there was no difference between the individuals in separate classes. All that divided us was paper currency which at the time we did not have. It was a difference created by society. As it is written in our textbook, “It is not the difference itself that leads to subordination, but the interpretation of the difference. It is assigning of a value to a particular difference in a way that discredits and individual or group to the advantage of another that transforms mere difference into deficiency”(10-11). I soon after pushed myself very hard in school and in life believing social class was just an interpretation in society, one that I could understand and …show more content…
Throughout time, Americans have needed a common enemy to unite them as a nation. When the pilgrims first arrived it was Native Americans who where a threat, During the Revolutionary war it was the British, and soon after, as America expanded, society began to hate the Mexicans. World War II brought on the hatred of the Japanese after the attack on Pearl Harbor and then the Russian communists during the cold war. He said America’s hatred of us will pass with time to some other group, for now we are the subordinate group and we but deal with it. He then told me to be careful though and stay within my social
Soon after I realized we were only going there because my mother couldn’t afford to feed us at the time. For the first time I saw the world from the other side, the side of the beggar. I realized there was no difference between the individuals in separate classes. All that divided us was paper currency which at the time we did not have. It was a difference created by society. As it is written in our textbook, “It is not the difference itself that leads to subordination, but the interpretation of the difference. It is assigning of a value to a particular difference in a way that discredits and individual or group to the advantage of another that transforms mere difference into deficiency”(10-11). I soon after pushed myself very hard in school and in life believing social class was just an interpretation in society, one that I could understand and …show more content…
Throughout time, Americans have needed a common enemy to unite them as a nation. When the pilgrims first arrived it was Native Americans who where a threat, During the Revolutionary war it was the British, and soon after, as America expanded, society began to hate the Mexicans. World War II brought on the hatred of the Japanese after the attack on Pearl Harbor and then the Russian communists during the cold war. He said America’s hatred of us will pass with time to some other group, for now we are the subordinate group and we but deal with it. He then told me to be careful though and stay within my social