A Summary On Attitudes To Race In Obama's America
The text in Section A focus on attitudes to race in Obama’s America. Write a paper (400-500 words), task 1 and 3.
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The first text is by Yolanda Young and she writes about how Barack Obama and his wife have changed the look at African American people. Before America got a coloured president white people did not notice her, even though her dark color stood out from the crowd she felt unseen.
After Barack Obama became President of the United States and his wife became the first black first lady, the vision of African American people changed. Now white people see her and sometimes complement her. In a research from 2008 a psychology professor asked 300 white participants if they preferred the company of white people or it did not matter. 51 …show more content…
Eric Holder has written this text and he thinks that there is a need to confront the racial past of America. He thinks it is not to be ignored that colured has played an important role in the development of the America that we have today, and therefore it is important that we can talk to each other about race in general. One place he points out is the American workplace. There has been a positive development of white Americans who have been mixed together with coloured Americans, but the one place things still need to be changed is the Americans’ time off, which is still socially separated into black and white …show more content…
However I agree with the second text by Eric Holder. It is important that the black and white Americans talk with each other, but is it enough just to talk to each other and avoid the topics that are the reason why is was hard to talk to each other in the first place? No it is not! The discriminating of African Americans has gone on for many years, but instead of dwelling on the past and the things that have been done, it is import to look forward and focus on what we can do to make it better. Therefore it is right when Walter Backstrom says, it is not necessary to tell kids in kindergarten how they used to be separated because of their appearance in the past. Instead we should make them play with each other across their different skin-colors. They are the generation that can change the whole society and its general attitude to race. This of course is something that will take time, but I believe that it can be done and society can change to the
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The first text is by Yolanda Young and she writes about how Barack Obama and his wife have changed the look at African American people. Before America got a coloured president white people did not notice her, even though her dark color stood out from the crowd she felt unseen.
After Barack Obama became President of the United States and his wife became the first black first lady, the vision of African American people changed. Now white people see her and sometimes complement her. In a research from 2008 a psychology professor asked 300 white participants if they preferred the company of white people or it did not matter. 51 …show more content…
Eric Holder has written this text and he thinks that there is a need to confront the racial past of America. He thinks it is not to be ignored that colured has played an important role in the development of the America that we have today, and therefore it is important that we can talk to each other about race in general. One place he points out is the American workplace. There has been a positive development of white Americans who have been mixed together with coloured Americans, but the one place things still need to be changed is the Americans’ time off, which is still socially separated into black and white …show more content…
However I agree with the second text by Eric Holder. It is important that the black and white Americans talk with each other, but is it enough just to talk to each other and avoid the topics that are the reason why is was hard to talk to each other in the first place? No it is not! The discriminating of African Americans has gone on for many years, but instead of dwelling on the past and the things that have been done, it is import to look forward and focus on what we can do to make it better. Therefore it is right when Walter Backstrom says, it is not necessary to tell kids in kindergarten how they used to be separated because of their appearance in the past. Instead we should make them play with each other across their different skin-colors. They are the generation that can change the whole society and its general attitude to race. This of course is something that will take time, but I believe that it can be done and society can change to the