part 3. I worked at a restaurant with about a dozen illegal immigrants, and they were lucky if they got one day off a week and they would work from opening till closing every time they were on shift. So illegal immigrants are not coming over to the states to be lazy. They are here to make money. The one thing that I think citizens do have a right to be hostile about is that the illegal immigrants do not have to pay taxes, but if their kids go to public school... the citizens are the one paying for that childs education. This is unfair, but I do not believe that illegal immigrants came over here with the intention of puposely getting their children free education. Citizens need to realize that the reason immigrants are coming over here is because they understand that this is an amazing place to live. They are not trying to strip us of our rights, they are trying to become a part of them.
part 2. You always hear big business people and politicians talking about how illegal immigrants are the reason for job shortages, but that is completely false. The only jobs that illegal immigrants are taking are those of teenagers who are not afraid to do some manual labor (and even then, that is a small number). Not many illegal immigrants are coming to the United States and are taking a corporate job. So that is one reason why Americans dislike illegal immigrants, even though it is not a good one. Illegal immigrants are also usually portrayed as bad people in general by American citizens. People feel that illegal immigrants are trying to take a shortcut by not having to pay taxes or get a green card or citizenship. They see them as lazy people who are just trying to get by as easily as they can. But once again, I don not believe that this is the situation. The illegal immigrants are the ones busting their asses doing all the manual labor. They work extremely long hours and do not get many days off. They are not treated as equally as workers who are citizens, and I have some personal experience with that.
part 1. The majority of our society as a whole probably does not like the number of illegal immigrants in the United States. People are always talking bad about illegal immigrants for many different reasons. I think one of the main reasons why the majority of people from our country dislike illegal immigrants is because illegal immigrants will do the same amount of work as an American, but for less pay. So people view this as illegal immigrants "taking our jobs." I, however, do not think that is true. Yeah, illegal immigrants are coming over here and getting jobs... but they are jobs that no one else would take.
3. You also have to take in the fact that people from different areas tend to use different dialects. Like that one kid called the exchanging of harsh words a "scuffle." I'm sure that some people in the class have never even heard of that word. But to the student that used it, it meant the same thing as the characters in the story getting into a verbal confrontation. Between language barries, comfort levels, and the actually difficult of the game telephone, I believe that the reasons as to why the story was so changed was not due to white student's trying to "sugar coat." There are many reasons as to why the story got lost in translation, but I think that the reason the story changed so often was due more to the fact of comfort level and dialect than the white students just "sugar coating" the story.
2. I do not believe that any "sugar coating" was done too intentionally. Yes, it's possible that the students did not feel comfortable enough to stand in front of six hundred other students and tell another student a story about how a black student got called the "n word." That would cause anyone to feel uneasy and to maybe alter the story slightly just to make it easier to tell in front of so many people. I do not believe that the color of the students skin had anything to do with the way the story was "sugar coated." It was simply just an affect of the way telephone is played and the comfort level of the students who participated. I know that personally, as a little white girl, I would not feel comfortable standing in front of a giant lecture hall and mentioning anything about the "n word." I keep only bringing up that part of the story because I feel like that was the part that was most altered. Other than that part of the story, I think all the other changes were simply due to the fact that the story was very long and easy to forget the order of events.
1. To be completely honest, I do not believe that there was much of a difference between the way white students told the story and the way black students told the story. In any typical game of telephone, the whole entire story will never remain perfectly intact. Whether the message being sent around during telephone is something silly or if the message is a long, serious story, the words and phrases are always going to get distorted. That's kind of the reason why "telephone" is a game. It's funny for children to play and it was actually pretty funny to hear the different versions of the story as being told from one student to the next.
3. I'm sure there will be that one guy at the party that will put all of the shorts and t-shirt wearing guys to shame. You can even look at it as that women have the upper hand (in a twisted way). We have the ability to choose whether or not to dress up on the weekends. If someone threw a party and all the girls showed up in sweatpants, then maybe the guys would have to dig a little deeper to find a girl that they actually like, rather than some girl that they would just like to sleep with. So I guess in that situation, women slightly do have the power. I’m aware that in many other situations, we never really do have the upper hand (which is wrong) but I believe it’s something that will be overcome in time. Maybe as we age the power flips. At least that’s what I’m going to tell myself. Once you start to hit older ages you have more power over the man in your life and the relationship as a whole. And I’m sure when we are older we’re not going to have to worry about wearing high heels and tight dresses.
2. This is probably the way that majority of women feel and this attributes to why there is not going to be change any time soon. To be honest, I think women embrace that we get all dressed up for weekend occasions. Personally, I love it. You feel powerful, confident and sexy. I realize that the only reason we feel this way is because we do live a male centered world and men see heels and a tight dress as sexy, but why not embrace it? Do it for yourself, not for them. If wearing something makes you feel a certain way about yourself, then flaunt it. This lecture might have given me new insight to the power that men have, but at the same time, it didn't make me want to change anything about myself. If a guy wants to go out looking like a bum, then let him.
1. To be completely honest with you, I left "The Needy Penis" lecture a very angry person. I mean it's pretty obvious that we live in a male centered world, but this lecture really just put it into perspective for me. Everything that Sam and Laurie were saying was absolutely true, and that is just SO unfair. We are not in the 1400s anymore, men should no longer have the upper hand. However, even though I left that lecture so angry, I knew nothing was going to change in the world or with myself. No matter how much I realize how unfairly male centered our world is, I am not going to change the way I act or dress.
We never went back to that salon due to that interaction. So beside the possible uncomfortable situation you might feel if you suspect people are speaking about you in a different language, I don't see why two people having a conversation around you in a different language would be a problem. It would be like an American traveling to another language speaking country and us talking in English. I don't think people would feel uncomfortable, necessarily, maybe just curious. If anything, people speaking a different language should be intriguing to people, not an uncomfortable situation.
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