The Power Of Context Gladwell Analysis

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In nowadays, individuals are free and brave to express their unfair treatments and claim for their human rights that everyone in the world, no matter the social class, gender, race and so on, should be treated equally. However, according to the three readings that we would discuss, individuals depend on different occupations, sexuality, social background, and even age, they expose themselves vulnerabilities in the real world. Malcolm Gladwell in his article, “The Power of Context”, provides readers a theory and a phenomena, which is the Broken Window Theory and New York City Subway situation. He uses these two examples to illiterate that cognitive associations and physical surroundings would affect people when they are vulnerable invisible …show more content…
For example, as Gladwell states “the only way we’re going to clean up this street is to get rid of the spics and niggers” (155). The words “spics” and “niggers”, point specifically to Spanish and African American. Therefore, by saying that, Gladwell eliminates the chance that Caucasians would commit crimes, which is a serve racial discrimination, however, this obscure clue is hard to be found out. Because of the cognitive associations and physical surroundings, through out the history, influence us that White people are superior to the rest of the ethnics. Therefore, the exist of classism produces the racism, and the racism fosters classism to a higher position. Further, Bell states, “ … the current average age of first sexual intercourse for women is seventeen, leaving ten years for sexual and relationship activity before the current median age of twenty-seven…” (26). There is a huge break of the average age for females to have their first sexual activity, however, women cannot extricate themselves from the stereotype. Women should have sex later than men; women should take their own responsibility of pregnancy; women should tolerate the bad words when they have multiple sexual experiences. Above all, males can easily take no responsibility for those, even if, as we all know, males play the other role …show more content…
Challenges related to gender and sexuality are still not adequately addressed. Society seems unfair on the many and seemingly place unattainable expectations for young women. Business company considered their interest on benefits more than the health of the consumers. Thus, human’s vulnerability is exposed because of the racism, sexism and capitalism. Even if the cognitive associations and physical surroundings might be changed with the time flow, the supreme position of classism is being fostered as long as the discrimination

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