Think of society as being a job interview. They take a long hard look at you, and ask where you our from and all about you. Are you good enough to be hired? Your not accepted because of one thing, and when you change that one thing it’s another. People will never just say what it is about you they want you to change. They will just keep inputting new requirements that they know you don’t have have. How will you change if you don’t know what to change or how to? So you find out your not acceptable to the society because of where you come from, stereotypes, how you look, and your race. You can’t change or fix those things about yourself, so what will you do?
There’s always something not only you but me too can’t fix, change, hide, or cover up. The way we see ourselves in the eyes of us is entirely different from the way others see us. We can be more hurtful to ourselves than others because we don’t accept who we are. We never know where on the scale of society we will be placed. You feel your good enough then they say your not. We “fix” what’s wrong then we don’t think we’re good enough now they do. Everyone sees what we want them to see, nothing more and nothing less. “Never go around like
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The little girl Maleeka struggles because she deals with the same self and world issues of finding her place. Maleeka was always treated different no matter what she did to change. Have you ever been in this state as a person? In one part of the story Maleeka tells us about why she didn’t go to a school she would belong at. Which kind of hinted at her feeling that where’s she from she shouldn’t go there. Remember when I said sometimes you won’t be accepted in society because when you become enough for society you're too much. Well that’s what Maleeka dealt with. Because she was always too tall, too skinny, too dark, or too smart. It makes me think that being to much is sometimes not enough even when they say it
Everyone has been responsible for wrongful actions in their lives. The reason for these actions as well as your envy, lies, and insecurities is your shadow. Carl Jung’s theory of the persona includes concepts of “the ego, living with the shadow and the persona and mask one wears”(Internet Wire). In “The Shadow Effect”, Jung also describes the shadow as representing “ ‘the other side’ or ‘the dark brother’, who is an inseparable part of our psyche” (Burkard Sievers). Jung explains how for a person to deal with social acceptance and the expectations of humanity, they must conceal the part of themselves that they know won’t conform with these expectations (the shadow). People conceal this part by
The world is filled with many different types of societies and cultures. This is due to the fact that many people share dissimilar beliefs and ideas, as well as diverse ways of life. People lived under different circumstances and stipulations, therefore forming cultures and societies with ideas they formulated, themselves. These two factors, society and culture, are what motivate people to execute the things that they do. Many times, however, society and culture can cause downgrading effects to an assemblage if ever it is corrupt or prejudiced. Society and culture not only influences the emotions individuals have toward things like age differences, religion, power, and equality but also the actions they perform as a result.
It is an accepted notion that race does not define an individual. However, it is an ideology that people have to deal with due to society’s nature. After the collapse of Jim Crow’s laws, race was not supposed to be a limiting factor on any individual in the United States. It had been widely accepted that it was nothing more than a myth. However, due to past transgressions, measures were put in place to ensure that people of color who had been harmed by segregation policies had easy access to tools that would better their lives. The fact that society believes that race is nothing more than a myth blinds people to the racial injustices that still take place. For instance, black people are six times more likely to be imprisoned than whites are. Moreover, three out of every four white persons do not have black friends. The opposite is true for two out of every three persons of African descent (Stockman). Nonetheless, the term race is slowly losing its meaning. A portion of society believes that being black will get you killed, while the other is of the opinion that it gets you a free pass to college. Despite the fact that that racism is a myth, there is still the unbearable truth that racial issues are present with little change on the
ee cummings once said, “to be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else—means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight.” That quotation is exemplified in many works of literature, but the opposite is too. No matter what people try to be or not to be, they don’t always succeed. For example, in the play, Antigone, by Sophocles, the character, Antigone displays the idea of being her own person, but Creon displays the opposite of that.
.... Those who opposed to those outrageous classifications were label as ignorant. Society gave African Americans no other alternative but to accept the social remarks imposed towards them, and if not they were classified as insane. Andrew Heberek discusses the psychological and emotional problems African Americans faced in society due to social remarks. Some of the problems Heberek discussed are African Americans lack of individualism. Mozora Sandler and David Briggs in their study incorporated the percentage of African Americans who are discriminated in American society. Marjorie Pryse and Michael Hardin both incorporate the inner struggles African Americans were facing in society and how their identity was interfered. Overall, the social remark American society has imposed towards the minority has led the majority of African Americans to be invisible.
“A butterfly can’t see it’s beautiful wings, but the rest of the world can,” would be my saying, that I honestly can’t pin down besides a vague year in Middle School. Beyond that, it holds meaning not only to me, but in context of life and the world currently. Gleaming at my phone at midnight because of a friend who admitted they almost took their lives through pills, this phrase while not used was apparent in my hours of conversation with that person that night. Struggling with an identity is something everyone across race, gender, class, and intelligence struggle with from trying to understand an innocent crush to understanding yourself and your position in life especially in such a competitive environment is difficult. People today must
Bobbie Harro states in “The cycle of socialization” (2000), “No one brings us a survey, in the womb, inquiring which gender, class, religion, sexual orientation, cultural group, ability status, or age we might want to be born. These identities are ascribed to us at birth through no effort or decision or choice of our own” (p.16). I was born into a system, just like everyone else, where I was judged and labeled due to the social categories that I identify with. What I have experienced throughout my schooling has shaped and molded my sense of self and the way that I view myself in terms of my gender and race/ethnicity. I live in a world where I have been both praised and ridiculed for these differing characteristics that seem to define me, but
The social location we grew up in is not what we wanted for our children this was decided when we got We receive privilege’s that others do not, because of race, social class, education, and gender, even age and the way we present ourselves. Also as a white, married, middle-class, mother, in my thirties, I get respect from a stranger, whether it be at the store, restaurant, or out at a movie theater. I 'm approachable, or non-threating look. My husband also gets these perks, and even more than me because he is a man.
In the modern era, stereotypes seem to be the ways people justify and simplify the society. Actually, “[s]tereotypes are one way in which we ‘define’ the world in order to see it” (Heilbroner 373). People often prejudge people or objects with grouping them into the categories or styles they know, and then treat the types with their experiences or just follow what other people usually do, without truly understand what and why. Thus, all that caused miscommunication, argument or losing opportunities to broaden the life experience. Stereotypes are usually formed based on an individual’s appearance, race, and gender that would put labels on people.
How does one fit in society and know what is acceptable? Social justice dictates our place in our community and society. Our own social justice views influence how we work as a whole. This includes fair treatment of every individual and making sure we all get the same opportunity as the next person. Equal opportunity should be available to everyone and there should be an open playing field for everyone. In our society, nothing is perfect. Not everyone agrees one hundred percent of the time and everyone can have different views based on institutions, political views and ideology.
The situations caused from the constraints of society are a battle to be fought. The fight to overcome such obstacles, consists of a continuance of learning more perspectives to society and one finding their authentic self. With that comes peace and determination which inevitably shows through the acts used to help the community. Starting with finding out the whole story to any situation. By doing this, one is able to look outside of the perspective of one society, to avoid the conflict that comes with the cycle of social comfort. Adichie says, "To insist only on these negative stories, is to flatten my experience and to overlook the many other stories that formed me. The problem with stereotypes are not that they are untrue, but that they
If we live in a society where the social “norm” is a white, male, heterosexual, Protestant, and middle class; I can see myself being an outsider because I’m a black, Hispanic, woman, Catholic, and middle class. My feelings are complex because I don’t identify as the norm and I have to work harder to be included. If society standards were based on that “norm,” I can imagine due to our differences based on how society is, there would be problems like discrimination or prejudice that have become an issue in today’s world. What is discrimination? Discrimination is an unjust treatment towards an individual, or a group of different categories of people such as race, age, sex, or class. Why do some people discriminate when they encounter someone outside their race? It breaks my heart when someone is treated differently because of the color of their skin, or race. Why can’t some people just put their differences aside and accept one another? We miss out on having a genuine relationship with each other and learning about each other’s culture. Despite the progress made until this time, discrimination is still an ongoing issue that we are faced with. Although, a lot of changes have improved in our society, minorities still encounter racial discrimination.
Just about everyone has done something that someone else disapproves of. In fact, almost all of us have done something we ourselves have reservations or second thoughts about. Perhaps we’ve stolen something, or told a lie, or gossiped about another person in an especially nasty way. Maybe on occasion we’ve gotten drunk, of high, or driven too fast, or recklessly. Have we ever worn clothes that someone else thought was out of style, offensive, or ugly? Have we belched at the dinner table, or did we ever break pick our nose in public? Maybe we failed to show up for an important class or read a crucial assignment, or permitted our eyes to wonder onto a neighbor’s answers during an exam. Do we like a television program that someone else finds stupid and boring? Didn’t we once date someone our parents and friends didn’t like? Maybe our religious beliefs and practices don’t agree with those of some other members of our society; it could be that they would regard us as too religious or not religious enough. For some people we may be too liberal, too conservative, or too much of a loser. Does someone else consider us too short or tall, too plain of exotic, to thin or heavy, too dark or to light skinned? The number of possible ways that what we believe, or do or are, could be judged negatively by others is infinite.
However, in order for us as a people to overcome these cracks in our supposedly perfect vase we must stop the stereotypes. Martin Luther King once said "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character" and why can 't we apply that to how we view a person. We shouldn 't let our judgement about a person cloud the way they are as person. We shouldn 't let stereotypes define a person work ethic and how we choose a person to be our husband/wife. We should determine a person on how they work, their strengths , their grit and how they can excel. This change of discrimination can not be easily fixed but it takes an individual to be open-mind instead of close-minded like those who listen to these stereotypes. To stop Discrimination honestly it stars within
Watching the miseries of your life before your eyes and choosing not to fix it because it is not what the crowd is doing is really pathetic. Being your own person is important because it helps you figure out who you really are and what you want out of life. Colin is trying to tell us that following the crowd ends up in disaster and if you want that out of your life go right on ahead, but if you want to be unique and have your own miseries then be yourself. Who are you going to choose to be the person in the middle of crowd or are you the one who is off somewhere else enjoying what life has to offer? It is something that you have to choose what you want out of your life if you want to follow the crowd or live your own