It seems that throughout American history that if you weren’t the typical “white” American your voice wasn’t heard, as if their opinions and values were “muted” from the “white” American. Society had been become so “whitewashed” throughout time that if you were any other race you were basically invisible in work and society besides with your own group of people. This doesn’t only apply to race as gender also plays a big role into this as well as women were not as privileged as the men. Out of Units 1-3 I choose to discuss article 1, 3, 5, 6 and 34.
In Article 1 written by Madrid, he discusses what is like to be “the other” in the United States. Even though Madrid is a born citizen of the United States because he is an American Indian he does not fit the American portfolio. He grew up in a small mountain village in New Mexico and his ancestors were native to that region and there are many others who look like him, talk to like him, have names like his but “whites” or as he calls them “Americanos” lived among them in that village which in the …show more content…
His driver was a middle aged white man who asked Takaki how long he had been in America. This is a question Takaki has been asked many many times and explained as he always did that he had been in the country his whole life and so has his dad and grandpa but because he wasn't "white" he didn't look American. The driver had a narrow but widely shared since of the past which is a history that has viewed Americans as European in ancestry. That race has functioned as a "metaphor" and was necessary to the "construction of Americanness". American had been defined as white. Currently only one third of Americans do not trace their origins to Europe and someday soon according to Time Magazine "white Americans will become a minority
In Article 1 written by Madrid, he discusses what is like to be “the other” in the United States. Even though Madrid is a born citizen of the United States because he is an American Indian he does not fit the American portfolio. He grew up in a small mountain village in New Mexico and his ancestors were native to that region and there are many others who look like him, talk to like him, have names like his but “whites” or as he calls them “Americanos” lived among them in that village which in the …show more content…
His driver was a middle aged white man who asked Takaki how long he had been in America. This is a question Takaki has been asked many many times and explained as he always did that he had been in the country his whole life and so has his dad and grandpa but because he wasn't "white" he didn't look American. The driver had a narrow but widely shared since of the past which is a history that has viewed Americans as European in ancestry. That race has functioned as a "metaphor" and was necessary to the "construction of Americanness". American had been defined as white. Currently only one third of Americans do not trace their origins to Europe and someday soon according to Time Magazine "white Americans will become a minority