Crash

In class we are watching a movie, by the name of Crash. Wow, is all I have to say. This movie truly demonstrates how different races affect our lives in so many different ways. So far throughout the movie, many characters are categorized and stereotyped within a blink of an eye. One example, was when Ludacris stereotyped every single white person on the street. "Man did you just see that?" Yeah she got cold.. "Nah, she just saw a couple of black a** dudes walkin towards her, n' instead of turnin around n' walkin da other way, cuz ya know that would be racist.. she grabbed onto her man.." (Something along those lines, don't really remember exactly what he said". He said that because, she was white and of course all white people don't like blacks.. JOKE. Stereotypes are all around us, whether we are the ones stereotyping or the ones being stereotyped. Growing up I was always stereotyped, because I wasn't the typical "American Girl". But luckily growing with age, I had learned to love that I'm European, because that's one more thing that not every person is. 

Black or White

Is Michael Jackson black or white? If you asked someone that didn't know who he was, their response would most likely be he's white based upon the color of his skin. Color plays a drastic role in society; especially the way people perceive others. If you saw a dark colored person walking down the street you would start narrowing down the options. Is he/she Nigerian, Indian, African? But what if in reality he/she was actually Hispanic. There you would be stereo-typing a human being. To be quite honest, all of us are racist. Of course some more than others, but we all judge, we all question, and we all assume. What we should get out of this is that skin is only color deep.. What the person's all about is really what counts in the end.

30 days in Poverty..

Last week in class we had watched a short "movie" on how a young couple would survive in complete poverty for 30 days. They had to find jobs (only jobs availiable were minimum wage jobs), find an apartment, and basically maintain a very simple lifestyle. While working they were able to buy food and find a place to live. Both of them didn't have a car; so the commute to work was rather difficult especially for the lady. As their income slowly began to become smaller because of all the expenses they had; it got to be SOO negative, that it would take monthes to get that money back all because of one emergency visit. Growing up in poverty, socially wise, many people strive so hard to achieve something but that usually isn't the outcome. Once they feel like they're getting somewhere, something always seems to come up wish always tends to push them back down. We take a lot of things for granted, just because majority of us did grow up in the middle/upper class.. but what we should really notice is how thankful we should be for having the things we do, being able to eat out, and living under a roof that isn't infested with ants.