Friday, April 29, 2011

Work for the American Dream

recently Meechin showed a clip called class divided that showed a lot of psychology involved with how well one may achieve as long as they feel superior. in the clip there was a scene where the children had done card times tables being timed on how fast they can get through the whole pack. with the collar on, the children performed much slower because that was a symbol of them being lower than the other children. this can be applied with even further discrimination and permanent collars on people who don't have the same chance as others because of the prejudiced and racist people will put others down for being different from themselves. its something that can be changed but the only way to do that is by changing our generation of people who think this way. the american dream is very possible but opportunities and chances change with those who have bigger disadvantages with others. and people who acquire an 'unearned skin privilege' will never realize how much harder it is to carry discrimination on their backs.