Analysis Of As American As Pie: Poverty And Welfare

Inequality through racial classification today is so common that it often goes unseen. It is in human nature to want to classify things, to put them in a place. Generally this is a positive thing when dealing with bacteria or species. However, when it comes to people, people forget people are simply that, people. It is also part of human nature to be competitive, so by people trying to classify everyone into a race, a hierarchy has formed that has designated some people “subpar” or “not capable” of achieving certain things in life such as a good job or an education. To me, I believe no matter who you are, you can achieve anything in life. Although, I also believe some people may have to work harder than others. While talking to an African professor, …show more content…
I think this is one of the most pressing aspects that people misjudge. A social class is defined as a group of people who share the same economic positions, but people make it much more complex than that. People look at the kind of job a person has or the color of their skin and place them in a class that they don’t necessarily belong to. In the reading “As American as Apple Pie: Poverty and Welfare,” it was brought to my attention that a majority of people will fall under the poverty line at some time in their life. Poverty has no color, yet at the same time people see black people in poverty and think it typical due to laziness or they are delinquent and can’t follow the law. Since people also associate lifestyle with class, then the so called “lazy” or “delinquent” life style of black people will place poverty stricken black people in a different class than poverty stricken white people because white people try harder, they just fell into a bit of bad luck (Social Class reading). I think this is a majority of people’s thinking but according to the American Pie reading this just isn’t true; which then again goes to show that there is a hierarchy in play among