Essay On Stereotypes Of America

Synthesis: Income Class Stereotypes of America Throughout our life time, we’ve either been stereotyped or have stereotyped a person according to their wealth and or job ethnics. You’re believed to belong in one of the following groups, poor, working-class, middle-class, or the top 1%. Many people try to convince themselves that just because you not wealthy or financially stable, that you will never make it far in life. In the article “Seeing and Making Cultural: Representing the Poor”, bell hooks talks about “how the media will always have a big influence on how society portrays poverty, weather your part of the poor, working class, or middle-class, you will always be frowned upon by a more supreme group of people” (bell hooks 1). Study shows how only 1% of the people in America have enough money to end poverty and end world hunger. Stereotyping will never go away, society will always have a bad image of which ever income class your associate with. People are too focused on material positions rather than being rich where it
If that’s the case, then every single person around the world has been stereotyped before, whether they’re rich or not. It shows how even if your rich, you will always go through criticism, maybe not as much as a poor person, but enough to show you how it feels to never be fully appreciated. People don’t realize how much effect stereotyping or prejudice can have in a person’s life. Stereotyping can work both ways, it can bring you down or push you beyond your limits, it just depends how you see it and thrive from it. The media portrays how only a white person can be rich, but that doesn’t stop the millions of minorities from busting there ass in order to put food on the table for their loved ones. It’s never too late to realize the true meaning behind being rich or being