The American Dream

In today’s society the media in ways of magazines, movies, and also TV shows produce what they believe girl’s culture is and how it reproduced. In forms of women being over sexualized, concerned with latest fashion trends, and fantasizing of male figures. In the true world we live in most of this is true, it can apply to some but not all and leaves out major issues of race and class. These popular images of women in our society is mostly images of rich white girls prancing around with daddy’s credit card buying the world. In this picture where are a Latinas and the African Americans or women of Asian descent, all excluded in this picture. Another part of our society that reproduces this ideology is in the work force, we known that women make …show more content…
People usually hear or it is a gender issue or a race issue but trying to explain the connection between the two is nearly impossible none the less talking about issues of class. An issue that most believe in the “American Dream” that is you hard enough that you will live some fantastic life and if you do not make it that it is your own fault. This ideology ingrained in our minds by companies that want use to work ourselves into the grave because that is the “American Dream” not recognizing that this “dream” is just a political ploy. This ploy gives us an excuse to blame people like women and any other minority in our white male ran corporate America and it is their fault that their road to the “American Dream” is riddled with pot holes and detours even though for any white male the road most time has a nice paved …show more content…
That percentage factors in the women having the same education, tenure, and experience that a man had in the same position. Class in this role plays out thru each of the three qualities when the two other issue of race factor in each of the three become compounded even further. “Women of color occupy only 11.9 percent of managerial and professional positions. And of those women, 5.3 percent are African American, 2.7 percent are Asian American, and 3.9 percent are Latina” (Warner). Resembling this issue as a recipe is a recipe for ma and cheese using only using two cups of milk (class), two cups of pasta shells (race), and lastly one cup of cheddar cheese (gender). Reason why class and race where labeled the two largest quantity ingredients because they have the biggest influence on women in the work place and the substance that sticks them all together is gender or the cheese in the