Trevor Noah's Analysis

Trevor Noah, host of "The Daily Show", was born to parents of completely different ethnic background. In his performance at the Apollo titled "Funny South African Comedian Trevor Noah on Black Americans", Trevor talks about how apartheid affected his childhood from things such as walking down the street and not being able to be seen holding hands with his mum or not being able to be with his dad in fear that the police will catch him. Trevor knew a few thing about the inequalities that were based on his race, class, and gender growing up. These inequalities however expand more than just in South Africa, but are plentiful in our society today. By going over these next five examples, I believe it will allow the readers to recognize that inequalities happen in all …show more content…
"The option of choosing among different ethnicities in their family background exists because the degree of discrimination and social distance attached to specific European backgrounds has diminished over time" (Water: 149)Often times, being an Irish American does not simply mean to belong to a Irish organization or marry other Irish people but rather be passed through family traditions or mass media images. European-origin individuals have the choice to admit to being ethnic if they wanted to. This in turn however, is not true for African or Asian Americans. "Who your ancestors are does affect your choice of spouse, where you live, what job you have, who your friends are, and what your chances are for success in American society"(Waters: 149) That is to say, white ethnics have a lot more choices and legroom than they believe. It is something that non white ethnics would have an hard time in understanding, for the treatment they are given as white Americans differ from those who are non