After talking about the Bardolinos family let now talk about the other others families mention in this text the Tamalson’s, the Rivera’s and the Kwan’s.
With the tamalsons families we understand how families instability financially affect the choice of their neighborhood not only that but has an urge impact on the children as well. The places where they live are not safe children because they are expose to drug. The school academic performance is not good as well. Also we some gender inequality. With those sentences from George if you are black men in this country you don’t have a chance, which is all not a chance. It is like no matter how hard you try you are nothing but a trash. I have been looking for work for over two years now and there is nothing. The last but not the least is a violent death because the neighborhoods usually calls for such scene, people get involved in drugs or stealing or even prostitution and out of that die painful and violent death. In some those are problems that face poor families.
With the Rivera’s families, we see how poverty can sometime affect your believe this is a catholic family
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Life has not been fair to the working class people of America, no matter what their color or ethnic background. Also it is working class families who feel the fluctuations in the economy most quickly and more keenly. Prejudice and discrimination and institutionalized racism have barred minorities from full participation in the society.
Comments / Questions
1. Inequality exist in America even though people don’t really talk about, working class family always suffer in this kind of economy.
2. Stratification has a urge impact on minorities.
3. After reading this I realize how the America myth of you work hard you can make it in this country as an immigrant I realize that I may work hard but gender inequality can be an obstacle on my way of becoming a successful
In 1957, Faustina Flores was left behind in her hometown of Venustiano Carranza, Jalisco, México, by her husband Timoteo Flores. He was traveling to a contracting center in Empalme, Sonora, México which he had heard about in the local newspaper. His whole life, he had worked on the landsdescribe what kinds of lands)) and knew his job very well but, as his family grew the money that once was enough to support his family was no longer enough. His travels to Sonora, Mexico were in search for work in el norte to possibly earn more money to help support his family by working in the fields as a Bracero -describe what a bracero is)) With Flores’ absence from the home, Faustina was left to raise eleven children on her own. This story is indicative
In Allen’s chart, he illustrates how only 2% of the American population makes over $10,000 a year. With the poverty level at $2000 a year, most of the American population fell close to or under this annual income (Doc 8). These low wages of annual income made people's’ lives a true struggle. Citizens would work for nearly 24 hours, all week long, just to get by with basic living standards. An example of living at or below the poverty level, is documented in Paul Blanshard’s “How to live on Forty-six Cents a Day” interview with a woman living in South Carolina with her family of 6.
The United States system such as the economy one has been constructed by a lot of discrimination and inequalities that the government try to hide from its citizens. When I talk about discrimination and inequalities I’m referring to the labor work that a lot of times it goes unnoticed and, not is recognize for how much it contributes to the U.S economy. During the 19th century and through 20th century, we have seen how much impact has the Bracero program done to the U.S economy and, the legacy that Cesar Chavez left for the farm workers. During the 1940s, after the U.S had experienced the great depression, there was a huge demand for labor in the United States.
The same is true for African American individuals in the work force. The workforce claims to give everyone a fair and equal hand, but often times African Americans are given the short end of the stick. This lack of opportunity leads me to question the structural conditions that have created cultural patterns that reinforce disadvantage. The structural issues of inequality in the workforce lead many individuals to have a stigma towards African American individuals. This stigma taint’s society’s view towards this group and allows them to make judgements on other aspects of their lives.
Julio, on the other hand, lives in highly ethnically diverse Los Angeles as one of the immigrant children devoid of family ties. This immediate environment of family is what Bronfenbrenner calls the microsystem. Luis enjoyed a physical presence and handling of the eleven family members in their home. But for Julio, it was a negative experience when aspect of physical development as she just a mere immigrant without parents around to give her moral support. On a worldwide perspective, both Julio and Luis desire a better world beyond theirs.
Goldfield discusses different race theories and how “race consciousness and racism pervade every fiber of our social existence.” He also asserts that the belief that white people are superior to all other races, or white-supremacy, has played a major role in America’s economic system since the early days of American colony. This issue was elaborated more fully through Gary Becker, “[...] employer preferences for white rather than non-white employees are irrational in that they diminish the employer’s potential profits” (8). As a result, the working-class politics is extremely underdeveloped in the United States. Goldfield expressed that a coordinated effort and a sustained class-based labor movement by poor working class whites and non-whites would help eliminate the economic disparity in
Income Inequality Income Inequality or “wage gap” is a big topic for freedom fighters and liberals for the simple fact that it isn’t equal for everyone. Because the wage gap is so prominent it's one of the biggest “facts” that discrimination is still apart of everyday American society. The wage gap from these radical interest groups think the economy is get a dollar take a dollar instead of a free flow economy. This misguided idea of the economy is absolutely not true and isn’t at the fault of the Government, but the people.
Many families suffered from economic hardships as well as emotional distress. Therefore the Braddock family overcame there challenges which are not having much to eat, not having money, and not having a place to live. To start with, one of the problems the Braddock family had was not having enough food to feed the whole family. For example, in
Many kids on Mango Street are not expected to go to college, not only because of the low expectations, but also because their families do not have enough money. In a community where the main issue present is poverty, the kids are not expected to be successful in certain aspects and are not expected to achieve great things in life. The Vargas kids, who live on Esperanza’s street, “bend trees and bounce between cars and dangle upside down from knees and almost break like fancy museum vases you can’t replace. They are without respect for all living things, including themselves” (Cisneros 29). As one can see, when a family is deeply involved with poverty, the parents often tend to forget about the children and their success.
In the formal essay “Making it in America,” Adam Davidson brings up what other people tend to ignore. He discusses the injustice the low income factory workers are receiving, even though productivity has grown. Humanity
Mantsios’ compares the profiles of different Americans lifestyles in his text and develops the idea that an individual’s class standing can affect their livelihood in detrimental ways, “The lower one’s class standing, the more difficult it is to secure appropriate housing, the more time is spent on routine tasks of everyday life, the greater is the percentage of income that goes to pay for food and other basic necessities, and the greater is the likelihood of crime victimization” (293). Mantsios explains that one’s class standing can affect the chances of survival and success. Ehrenreich describes her own housing experiences as a low income worker. To reduce her overall costs and to obtain a second job, Ehrenreich moves closer to Key West. Ehrenreich has just enough money to pay the rent and deposit on a tiny trailer at the Overseas Trailer Park.
America prides itself on being one of the most effective democratically governed counties. The idea of the American dream is that all people have equivalent political freedoms and a responsive government. However the effectiveness of social equality is being threatened by increasing inequality in the United States. Economic inequality in the US has expanded drastically. The wealth gap has had drastic changes over the past 35 years.
There are countless families with impoverished, single mothers with many children of a minority race that are discriminated against. Especially around the 50s and 60s when the novel is set, immigrant women did not have high chances of being hired for a stable enough job to support their family. This then causes the mother to grow tired and weary, too drained to take care of their children like they should. After a while, the neighbors stop caring and ignore them rather than help them, and the children run about without any care for the consequences of their actions. Some of these consequences aren’t that bad; however, in cases like the Vargases’, the lack of proper supervision, guidance, and care can lead to horrible occurrences like the death of a
Without the traditional community they once would have had in Puerto Rico, there was no intervention to stop child abuse. As a teenage girl, Candy went against her father’s dominate role by running away. It was not uncommon for such instance to occur Puerto Rico. The family faced no shame by a runaway daughter as long as she allowed her lover to have complete control. Usually a girl would have the aid of her community to bring her to a new male-dominate household and away from her father’s abuse (2003: 219).
A major contributor to this is the “ lack of hope in the US” as “ poor people in the US are less likely to believe hard-work will get them ahead,”(The Guardians). Attitude and ascribed status cause social inequality to remain