I think Hollywood is not as bad as everyone makes it out to be; I don’t think that it is just a haven for the skinny white blondes, it really is for everyone. For example, women of all shape and sizes make it big; it is just which celebrities you want to focus on. Kate Hudson is stick thin, Jennifer Lopez is curvy and Queen Latifah is bigger boned however they all have made it big in Hollywood. All races are represented and all facial features are represented. I kind of see Hollywood as a way to inspire people. If you really want it and you put your mind to it, you can make it in Hollywood no matter what you look like.
I feel that if we take away body image there are still numerous things about being female that ties together women of all shape, sizes and cultures. One for example is that we all have to go through the same things no matter what you look like or where you are from. We all have to deal with our gift from Mother Nature every twenty eight days. We have to deal with the bloating, the cramps, the headaches, the annoyance of having to always have tampons or pads handy and having to run to the bathroom every four to eight hours. We all have to deal with the gift of pregnancy. No male can understand those nine long months. No male can understand the morning sickness, the aches and pains of the big belly, the bigger milk filled boobs, the pain of a baby coming out and the joy of knowing that this little baby came from you. We also have to deal with differences in the real world. For example if you are a woman pursuing a career in business or architecture or engineering you will feel the scarcity of women in the workforce. You have to deal with the fact that some men will think less of you because you are a woman or that some feel that they can take advantage of you.
I think that to be a woman it is just to be comfortable in your own skin. We all know that everyone is insecure about something in their own way but if you love your body and work it the right way you will come off as a confident woman that people look up to and want to be around. Positive energy will flow around you and attract others to be drawn towards you. People always are harsher on themselves than other people are on them therefore if we just learn to love our imperfections and think of them as something to add to our unique personality our lives would be so much less stressful and richer overall.
Well with step one being awareness on a personal level, step two may be awareness on a societal level. It may be buying fair trade products, where none of the ingredients contain anything that was made by slaves, and telling others about the conditions in which the slaves have to work through. We know what happens to the slaves because we read the book for the first exam and watched the you-tube clip in class, however if you were not fortune enough to take soc119 and you were an idealist person you might not even know that slavery still exists. Therefore I think that step two is spreading the word to others.
I think the Census would be a hard job to think of what questions to ask and what answers to put. So many people think and feel so many ways its hard to please everyone. Like the part of the interview with the younger man, woman and older (mid-aged) man were talking about the term "Negro." The younger man and the woman were somewhat shocked and outraged, whereas the mid-aged man saw where it was coming from, yet still would never pick it to describe himself. However some older individuals would have been upset if the term "Negro" was not on the form. It seems to me like it is a lose-lose situation for the Census Bureau.
The third question pondered in the first post, the question of the effect on people who held power positions in the country, I feel that this country is changing anyway. We recently elected our first black president, who is doing a wonderful job. Therefore I feel that it will be hard to separate the cause and effect of changing birth rates of the minorities from the fact that we are more open to others leading us in general.
It was interesting to connect that the whites will no longer be the majority to the doll video we watched in class where younger children were asked questions like which doll they would rather play with, which doll was better, which doll was nicer, and which doll looked like them. The answers to these questions were either a black or a white doll. Most children told the lady who was conducting the interviews that the white doll was the doll they would play with, it was the better doll, it was the nicer doll but that the black doll was the doll that looked most like them. Maybe the fact that birth rates in the United States for minorities are coming close to the majority, well maybe the outcome of another test like this would result in the children picking the doll that looked like themselves to be the doll they would play with, the doll that was better, and the doll that was nicer.
Will the privileged white ever be considered a minority as a whole? I understand where the poster is coming from when saying yes in a situation where there are ten brown people and five white people then obviously the white individuals will be in the minority. But overall in the world, will our society ever change the way that it thinks to include this new thought that white may in fact be among the minorities? For example the article states that "The Census Bureau estimates that minorities will constitute a majority of the nation’s overall population in about three decades and a majority of Americans under age 18 in about one decade," but will we, the white Americans or even Americans as a whole, ever full realize and accept that the white individuals will no longer be the majority? Will the way things happen change? Will relationships between different racial and ethnic compositions change?
I agree with this post one hundred percent. I at first I did not really see how I could write a post that was over four hundred and fifty words to get credit, it seemed as though I should use this article as one of my one hundred word posts so that I could just write how interesting it all was and that it will be interesting to see how things change in the fast upcoming future. However after reading some of the prior posts, the article has become much more interesting.
I agree with this comment, I think it would be utter chaos if we got rid of the welfare system. I understand the stereotype that comes along with the welfare system; however most individuals that benefit from the welfare system are not slackers looking for a free ride. Especially of late, with the recession many people have been laid off and it has been really hard to find jobs. Also children should not be thrown onto the streets. Personally I don’t think that anyone should be thrown onto the streets but I cannot think of a way to fix the system yet I still do not think it should be taken away.
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