There are many things that make us the same in this world but there are also things that make us very different. The way people are classified has a lot to do with their ethnic background. The interconnectedness of race and class is something that creates identity and shape experience. Race is physical characteristics such as hair color, eye color, and skin color shared by a group of people. Class is a category of wealth or economic status based on income and expenses. The reason that these two go together is because of the way society categorizes people nowadays. It is as though your race identifies your social class, this is never true and shouldn’t even be a thing. The reason that social class is an identifier makes sense and doesn’t in
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At first Joey, was embarrassed of working there and he seemed as if he was too good to work there. We found out that he just needed extra money while his wife finishes her schooling. Jobs like Wendy’s and Mc Donald’s are always looked at as like the basic first job for a teen or a younger adult. The job pays minimum wage and it is so low so it is not the best job out there for anyone, but at the end of the day a job is a job and money is money. This proves that people’s social class has nothing to do with the qualities of a person or anything of that nature. In the passage he has a conversation with another man, the man asked him if he ever thought about college. Joey says, “I want to tell him that I’m in the top 5 percent of students at my college, that I am two semesters away from graduating, and that I am on my way to grad school to get my Ph.D. in English Literature.” To the guys he is talking to he just seems like any regular young man who is just working an easy job for money and has not really put thought into their future. One thing though, is that he sees what it is like behind the counter, and the employees aren’t just desperate people trying to hold a job but they are real people who depend on the job. Everyone just assumes that he is one of the less fortunate and/or he has little money, but this is not the case at …show more content…
None of that should be used to judge a person, it should be the way they present themselves and not what the color of their skin is and not how much money they have. In the passage “How it feels to be colored,” Zora says “The terrible struggle that made me an American out of a potential slave said “On the line!” The reconstruction said “Get set!”; and he generation before said ”Go!” I am off to a flying start and I must not halt in the stretch to look behind and sweep. Slavery is the price I paid for civilization.” Race does not matter at the end of the day, it is just a physical characteristic that no one would ever be able to get rid of. In “Working in Wendy’s,” Joey has a conversation with his dad and his father questions his job as if it was wrong to work there and it was a poor job for him. Joey says, “I am stuck wondering how to make him understand, and at the same time wondering why I should have to explain anything at all.” Social class is judged by everyone, and that is something we all have to
At first Joey, was embarrassed of working there and he seemed as if he was too good to work there. We found out that he just needed extra money while his wife finishes her schooling. Jobs like Wendy’s and Mc Donald’s are always looked at as like the basic first job for a teen or a younger adult. The job pays minimum wage and it is so low so it is not the best job out there for anyone, but at the end of the day a job is a job and money is money. This proves that people’s social class has nothing to do with the qualities of a person or anything of that nature. In the passage he has a conversation with another man, the man asked him if he ever thought about college. Joey says, “I want to tell him that I’m in the top 5 percent of students at my college, that I am two semesters away from graduating, and that I am on my way to grad school to get my Ph.D. in English Literature.” To the guys he is talking to he just seems like any regular young man who is just working an easy job for money and has not really put thought into their future. One thing though, is that he sees what it is like behind the counter, and the employees aren’t just desperate people trying to hold a job but they are real people who depend on the job. Everyone just assumes that he is one of the less fortunate and/or he has little money, but this is not the case at …show more content…
None of that should be used to judge a person, it should be the way they present themselves and not what the color of their skin is and not how much money they have. In the passage “How it feels to be colored,” Zora says “The terrible struggle that made me an American out of a potential slave said “On the line!” The reconstruction said “Get set!”; and he generation before said ”Go!” I am off to a flying start and I must not halt in the stretch to look behind and sweep. Slavery is the price I paid for civilization.” Race does not matter at the end of the day, it is just a physical characteristic that no one would ever be able to get rid of. In “Working in Wendy’s,” Joey has a conversation with his dad and his father questions his job as if it was wrong to work there and it was a poor job for him. Joey says, “I am stuck wondering how to make him understand, and at the same time wondering why I should have to explain anything at all.” Social class is judged by everyone, and that is something we all have to