The Race Game...

In the video that we watched, A Girl Like Me, I was really shocked when they did an experiment with young black girls and how they are socially constructed about race. Race has changed dramatically throughout the years accepting other cultures and traditions and just accepting people for who they really are. In the experiment when they placed 2 dolls of different races, one black and one white on the table in front of the girl and asked which doll do you play with, almost everyone chose the white doll. When asked who is thud nice one and who is the mean one almost everyone chose the white doll as nice and the black one as mean. The world and people have socially constructed race all different types of ways making us believe different things and not just think what we want to believe. What even threw mw for another loop was when one of the interviewees stated that her aunt and started her daughter into lying in a bath full of bleach to change their race. The way that we think about race is going to keep changing wether we like it or not.

Pushing the Limit....

While reading and watching the video about social classes, there are some people who just take it too far. While the poor are working multiple jobs at minimum wage, there is the rich upper class who is spending their money on ridiculous things. The part that made me shocked was how the upper class want to carry on their traits to thier children through making sure their children and anyone else for that matter know that they have money and are part of the upper class. The upper class were pushing the limit the most when I read that they spend over $15,000+ on their child's preschool. That is insane! The upper class are putting their children through such high class schools just so they keep on the family money and show it. What's the point when they are going to need that money for college. Plus, your child might not even get into that preschool without an exceptional interview. We are socially constructed into thinking that we need to show what we have wether it's through our cars or clothes so people treat us the 'right' way.

The Game Of Social Class...

While we played Monopoly in class the other day, I never realized how it is based on social class. You have the game pieces of the Money Bag/Horse, representing the wealthy upper class, then the Car, for the middle class, and the Wheelbarrow, for the working class. Monopoly is basically the game of life. Once we started playing it got me thinking. Which class am I in? Do I let others know what class I’m in? Do I hang out with people in different social classes? It all started coming to me. I never really thought about whom I associate myself with until now. I think that because of our school being one of the most diverse schools, you really are not in one particular social class. There are cliques and groups, but for me I hang out with who I am friends with. I have multiple friends from different social groups and I’m glad I do. Being with the same group of friends that are in the same clique again and again would just get boring to me. You talk about the same people and do the same things. You aren’t expanding your horizons and aren’t exploring the other people who you have been within the same school for almost 4 years now. There isn’t anything wrong with being friendly or friends with people outside of your social circle. People pick on people. People judge other people. But for what reason? If say the ‘popular’ kids who never associate themselves with the ‘geeks’ are never going to learn about who they really are. They are judging them by the outside not the inside. So if they have not so nice looking clothes, one assumes they don’t have money. While if one dresses in Polo and designer jeans, then they are automatically popular and on the higher end of the class stick.  Assuming gets you nowhere in life. Expand your horizons and live life better with no Social Class.