People

around us. Whether it is from bullying, persuasion, criticism, or social norm, conforming to the way of society is a part of life. Why do we have our emotions/actions depend solely on what other people think of us? We are afraid to stand up for ourselves because of what other people will think of us. Many people conform for different reasons that have effects on them. For example Frank who wants the whole block to be peaceful and in agreement. As we see when Frank says “You want somebody like…

In “My People the Sioux” written by Luther Standing Bear, he documents significant history from a Native American lifestyle assimilating to the white race. Standing Bear writes an autobiography in order “to write accurately about the struggles and disappointments of the Indian (preface).” Moreover, Richard Ellis brings up controversies about the “factual errors” that Standing Bear might have said in his own autobiography. Ellis is referring to the support that is achieved through “written…

Dear White People (2014) is a movie based on a fictional Ivy League college called Winchester. The school is predominantly white, which leads to several culture clashes that result in a “Release Your Inner Negro” party held by one of the most prestigious houses at the school. The movie explores racial identities of the diverse black cast in order to create a social commentary on issues that students still face today. The main student we follow is Sam White, a biracial film and media student who…

Association for the Advancement of Colored People (commonly abbreviated as NAACP), a group that was organized to achieve equality of the races. The NAACP was founded by an interracial group of approximately 60 people that included W. E. B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Mary Church Terrell and others. The NAACP was initially formed partly because of lynchings and the 1908 race riot that took place in Illinois. Citizens were tired of the mistreating of colored people so they formed this group…

perception of what society should look like. Communities like the ones seen in “The Baka: People of the Forest” and “The Hadza: Last of the First” widely differ from what westerners are used to seeing. The Baka people of the Baka community live in the southeast rain forest of the Dja region, in Cameroon, but often cross the border between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Gabon. Respectively, the Hadza people live near the lake Eyasi Valley and its surrounding hills in Tanzania. Both are…

America’s community separated into numerous group of races. Through “People Like Us”, Brooks makes us realize the meaning of racial segmentation in the United States society. “We are finding places where we are comfortable and where we feel we flourish. But the choice we make toward that end lead to the very opposite of diversity” (63). Finding our new places are hard but finding the places where make us agreeable are harder because most people don’t want to live near multiracial human. For…

Tiwi people. They inhabit the Melville and Bathurst islands, which spans out to roughly three thousand square miles. I grew up on a farm with about six thousand acres of land used for cattle and planting crops. I always perceived my area of land to be quite extensive, but after learning about the Tiwi’s plot of land I realized how small my farm actually is. The two islands are described as being heavily forested. This allows for lush greenery to be ever present as scenery for the Tiwi people.…

documentary ‘White People.’ The filmmaker, Jose Antonio Vargas attempts to answer the question of what it means to be white, from a white person’s perspective, and to start a conversation on white supremacy. Responses he received to his question was that being white meant that there was the idea that things belong to you, the perception was that white people ‘good,’ and did not have to deal with prejudices, stereotypes, being hassled by police, or with systematic oppression. White people never…

People in Society The main characters, Twyla and Roberta, meet at first in St. Bonny that is an orphanage. In general, the orphanage is a facility for children who are abandoned by their parents and whose parents are dead. However, the two main characters have different situations from other “real orphans” (Morrison 132). The reader can have knowledge of their situation by the first sentence of the story “[m]y mother danced all night and Roberta’s was sick” (Morrison 131). Even though they…

In Chinua Achebe’s A Man of the People, a recurring subject that causes issue is the subject of power in the country. In the time in which the book is set, Nigerian politics was ripe with corruption following its independence from Britain, who had been its territory since 1885, and with independence came greed for power from the elite of Nigeria. Although the book is set in an unnamed country, Achebe is most likely basing the events of the book on events that took place in postcolonial Nigeria.…