The Welfare Queen Myths

In her essay “Mother Tongue,” Amy Tan reveals how Americans mistreated her Chinese mother because her English wasn’t impeccable. Tan even discusses how she was embarrassed by her mother’s English, writing that she “believed that her [mother’s] English reflected the quality of what she had to say” (Tan 702). Essentially, the difference between how Tan spoke and how her mother spoke—in Tan’s point of view—suggested that Tan’s mother was unintelligent because she couldn’t speak English as well as Tan. Many people make the inappropriate assumption that a person’s intelligence can be measured by how well he speaks a language; when people notice a mistake when someone else is speaking, they are more likely to view that person as less intelligent, which often gives way to mistreatment of these people who are perceived as unintelligent.

The author argues in this chapter that Chinese families were unjustly separated in America because the husbands needed work and Chinese woman were not allowed into America. A specific piece of evidence that the author uses to support his case is the men who looked for loopholes in the law, attempting to bring their families from China to America. Ch. 7

This would contribute as much to the peace and harmony of our country,” (Adams 1788-1801). She may just seem like she wants to help the country, but she is really breaking the first amendment. She caused a lot of trouble in getting the Sedition Act passed and it really didn’t improve anything in the country. All it did was put innocent people in

The Austrian state was not pleased with this sudden change. Their task was to halt the cultural development of the peoples, so they went after individuals on a lower footing that were easier targets. The lack of ornament was apparent to the state, which was then subsidized with state funds. Loos sees ornament as a crime against the national economy by wasting human labor, money, and materials. There is need for a cultural evolution, only to be slowed down by stragglers who are still in support of ornament due to monetary ties.

Vanessa brought up the point, a little while after someone mentioned the murder, that honoring family and virginity is culturally related, as opposed to religiously. I agreed because if the Vicario twins’ motives were reasoned by religion, Santiago Nasar’s punishment would, most likely, not have been the same. It was then brought up by Zoe that social class plays a big part od Santiago’s murder/death. Because Vanessa made the point that Angela Vicario lied to her brothers that it was Santiago who took her virginity because him being wealthy should have protected him. I agreed with Vanessa and disagreed with Zoe based off of class not mattering to the Vicario twins when they killed Santiago; the discussion then became culture versus class.

The inability to interact freely with others is in itself a grave deprivation as it hinders full participation of an individual in the overall life of the community. Being excluded from social relations can lead to further deprivations thus limiting one’s opportunities. This demonstrates that social exclusion can be constitutive part of capability deprivation (Constitutive Importance) as well as be instrumental in causing multiple capability failures (Instrumental Importance). Adam Smith in his Wealth of Nations also talks about effects of particular types of exclusion such as certain sections of the population being kept out of the market either through legislation of due to lack of education. From this perspective, an impoverished life is one without the freedom to undertake activities that a person has reasons to choose to be able to lead a minimally decent and dignified life.

Silencing those who suffer from structural violence and concealing their stories in order to spare those in power is the final characteristic of structural violence. According to Paul Farmer, “the poor are not only more likely to suffer; they are also more likely to have their suffering silenced” (25). By suppressing their suffering, the world is unable to understand the suffering that is taking place and therefore cannot put an end to such events. The rich will continue on with their lives while the poor will have to continue struggling and making ends meet by any means

LeLand Poverty in America draws a lot of attention to those who are living in such welfare reliant, immense poverty and crime, below educated, and unfortunate health conditions, leading the poor to be in such isolation that results them to be isolated from mainstream society (p54). As public opinion over welfare increased, public policy began to change. Public opinion thought that if they were giving money to those who already have jobs or money goes to those who could have jobs are unfair in terms of the deserving and undeserving poor. Originally, the program was created to help women get back on track and help support women and their children owing to the fact that women were the main

There are many stigmas attached to receiving public assistance. People who depend on welfare to survive are often seen to use welfare because of “their laziness, drug use, lack of human capital, personal choice, or other personal shortcomings or irresponsible behavior.” The mothers in the study conducted by Seccombe, James, and Walters found that women receiving public assistance were all too aware of these stigma. These women understood that other people looked at them differently when they found out that they were on welfare. The surprising finding in this study, however, is that while individual women saw themselves as victims of a system, they stigmatized other women on public assistance under the same stereotypes that they were subjected to by others.

INTRODUCTION “We live in a society where children are seen as price trophies, where women who are unable to give birth are seen as incomplete individuals and the social stigma attached to them is cruel and dehumanizing.” -Merci Fabros in Raposan (2002) Infertility is a life experience that is shared by many women all over the world. Society deems it as tragedy, a curse, and crisis due to its many threats and underlying consequences that affects the quality of life of women and her family (Van den Akker, 2012; Covington & Burns, 2006). In a world where seven billion people live, eight to twelve percent experience and suffer from infertility and many more are not accounted for (Kols & Nguyen, 1997).

This was also the age with the forgettable presidents because they didn’t do anything. While the presidents weren’t that special some of them did make a couple awful laws that excluded immigrants. Many people disliked immigrants because they felt that they were taking away jobs and making jobs lower wages. It came to a point that the U.S. created immigration stations. While the government continued to do little to no work, they continued to push Native Americans off their land.

The Great Depression was not only one of the defining moments in American history, but also one of the most difficult hardships Americans faced. During the Great Depression, which was ignited by the stock market crash of 1929, people faced unemployment, poverty, and changes in government the ultimately shaped America today. Many people believe that The Great Depression began when the stock market crashed on October 29, 1929 (“The Great Depression,” American Express). In the mid to late 1920’s the stock market grew majorly, the stock prices skyrocketed gaining interest from all kinds of people.