The American Dream Research Paper
The American Dream is the ideal that every citizen should have an equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity through hard work, determination, and initiative. Sadly, discrimination, an unfair focus on a citizen’s race, social status, and gender, put up roadblocks for some who wanted to accomplish their American Dream. How do issues of race, class, and gender affect one’s understanding of the American Dream?
Well, the American Dream was meant for everyone who lived in America had a chance to be successful. Racism was in place and it stopped many Blacks, Asians and Hispanics from achieving the American Dream. Statistically, African-Americans are less likely to make more than their parents than whites, and Blacks are more likely to …show more content…
But so was gender, there was sexism in the economy and that made it hard for women to achieve The American Dream. It is obvious that gender played a vital role in the ability, and inability, for women to achieve their American Dream. Men have always been viewed as the alpha male, more important than women and the bread winners of the world around us, which makes it difficult for woman to succeed humanity’s stereotypes. By showing an 1865 home illustration by Thomas Nast, Anita hill started her presentation on discrimination. There are slaves in the photograph also a woman of the household standing and cooking. The woman’s role, she said, did not change that much over the next century. So basically that is showing how women are stereotyped into being the ones who cooks and cleans all the time. Going back to 1865 woman have always been secondary to men. Their job was always to cook, clean, and care for the children as the men went to work to earn money to help support the family. The Recent Census Bureau data shows that white Americans have 22x more wealth than blacks. In 2010 the median household net worth for whites was about $111,000 compared to the net worth for blacks was $5,000. Whites also have 15x more wealth than Hispanics. To me the world around us is stereotyped. Women back then wasn’t treated equally and sometime abused. It wasn’t fair for them to have to go through that. Just
Well, the American Dream was meant for everyone who lived in America had a chance to be successful. Racism was in place and it stopped many Blacks, Asians and Hispanics from achieving the American Dream. Statistically, African-Americans are less likely to make more than their parents than whites, and Blacks are more likely to …show more content…
But so was gender, there was sexism in the economy and that made it hard for women to achieve The American Dream. It is obvious that gender played a vital role in the ability, and inability, for women to achieve their American Dream. Men have always been viewed as the alpha male, more important than women and the bread winners of the world around us, which makes it difficult for woman to succeed humanity’s stereotypes. By showing an 1865 home illustration by Thomas Nast, Anita hill started her presentation on discrimination. There are slaves in the photograph also a woman of the household standing and cooking. The woman’s role, she said, did not change that much over the next century. So basically that is showing how women are stereotyped into being the ones who cooks and cleans all the time. Going back to 1865 woman have always been secondary to men. Their job was always to cook, clean, and care for the children as the men went to work to earn money to help support the family. The Recent Census Bureau data shows that white Americans have 22x more wealth than blacks. In 2010 the median household net worth for whites was about $111,000 compared to the net worth for blacks was $5,000. Whites also have 15x more wealth than Hispanics. To me the world around us is stereotyped. Women back then wasn’t treated equally and sometime abused. It wasn’t fair for them to have to go through that. Just