A brick wall of freezing air hits your face as you walk down a seemingly clean and populated part of town. Your pace shifts as the weather on this particular day seems like the coldest in ages and yet you start to warm up as you near the epicenter of a part of town that seems to glow with its radiant warmth. The sidewalks are clean and well maintained; the shops are vibrant and lively with people enjoying the day. As you enter the Metropolis you are only greeted with a harsh and cold flurry of wind on your uncovered face and the ever more obvious colder stares coming from the frigid and dumbfounded people behind them. The stares seem to be the worst thing to bear as the cold stares are freezing your body so you shuffle your all black shoes
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This is a fact of life and albeit a sad one it still remains true through most people’s eyes. The poor or rather more bluntly those with little to no money also fall under stereotypes and criticisms and as the opposition (upper class) would have it being poor is not only the disadvantage that reflects your bank account but rather a stigma that follows you. The opposition has many upper class citizens believing that the poor should not be pitied as they are not poor due to extraneous circumstances. As Barbara Ehrenreich points to Michael Harringtons book The Other America where she sums his book up as being a foul joke to the poor people as he writes to inform those of their (the poor) existence but, as he adds, do not feel bad for them as they are poor because of their own …show more content…
Because the rest of us are considered normal as these class stereotypes can impact us negatively and in most ways have you suffer for the afflictions that you feel. As Richard Rodriguez, PHD holder and acclaimed author, illustrates that class stereotypes impact our lives. Richard Rodriguez grew up in a working class household in which his parents were Mexican immigrants and English was his second language as his parents did not know any. Richard Rodriguez suffered two of the aforementioned class stereotypes as he was poor and at the disadvantage of an immigrant and not knowing English. However, Rodriguez did not take the opposition against him lying down as he was teaching himself English and read many books. In a matter of a couple years he excelled in academics and received awards regularly. As compelled as he
This is a fact of life and albeit a sad one it still remains true through most people’s eyes. The poor or rather more bluntly those with little to no money also fall under stereotypes and criticisms and as the opposition (upper class) would have it being poor is not only the disadvantage that reflects your bank account but rather a stigma that follows you. The opposition has many upper class citizens believing that the poor should not be pitied as they are not poor due to extraneous circumstances. As Barbara Ehrenreich points to Michael Harringtons book The Other America where she sums his book up as being a foul joke to the poor people as he writes to inform those of their (the poor) existence but, as he adds, do not feel bad for them as they are poor because of their own …show more content…
Because the rest of us are considered normal as these class stereotypes can impact us negatively and in most ways have you suffer for the afflictions that you feel. As Richard Rodriguez, PHD holder and acclaimed author, illustrates that class stereotypes impact our lives. Richard Rodriguez grew up in a working class household in which his parents were Mexican immigrants and English was his second language as his parents did not know any. Richard Rodriguez suffered two of the aforementioned class stereotypes as he was poor and at the disadvantage of an immigrant and not knowing English. However, Rodriguez did not take the opposition against him lying down as he was teaching himself English and read many books. In a matter of a couple years he excelled in academics and received awards regularly. As compelled as he