Social Stereotypes Essay

There is a popular meme that has made it’s way around the internet that is a perfect example of the stereotypes that are seen on welfare holders. It is of a picture of two stereotypical refrigerators. The left is a middle class refrigerator and the right is one that belongs to someone in the lower class that is receiving government assistance. The middle class refrigerator has some milk, cheese, eggs, condiments, and some fruit, but the lower class refrigerator is overflown with frozen TV dinners, chips, the good kind of cereal, soda and even energy drinks. It is filled with all the good stuff that according to the meme the hard working middle class taxpayers has to think twice about getting. This meme is shamming the SNAPS program in letting their recipients …show more content…
They argument is that they are given money to buy their household nutritious food but yet they find it better to just go the cheapest route so they don’t ever have to use money from their own pocket to pay for food. A huge problem that people have with the system is that the recipients have the access to all this junk at the grocery store and now even have access to fast food restaurants. Many main stream fast food restaurants are now accepting EBT. These include Taco Bell, Burger King, KFC, Pizza Hut, Jack in the Box and yes McDonalds. The argument they have on the SNAP program is they feel that they are contradicting themselves from their mission statement. Fast food is the complete opposite of food needed for good health. Some argue that if the government really wanted to give the proper nutritions out there should be a system similar to the WIC program that only allows them to get the food that is needed in their household to help there kids grow up with a nutritious