Why Do You Think Kyung-Soon Should Rethink When She's Race

Every establishment that she applies would rather hire her as a waitress because she is white and speaks English. When applying to Hearthside, Ehrenreich even downgrades herself in order to attain a job as a housekeeper. “I mutter about being woefully out of practice as a waitress, but he’s already on to the uniform” (Ehrenreich, 16). However, even though the author attempts to prove she would not make a good waitress, her employer is already stubborn and thinks that she is more worthy as a server as opposed to a housekeeper. So why did her boss make her a waitress when she clearly wanted to be a housekeeper? Her boss made her a waitress simply, because he used stereotypes to judge the author. Therefore, her boss only saw a white woman who was better equipped with serving skills even though Ehrenreich believed she had better housekeeping skills. Now, sadly if a fluent English speaking Hispanic applied to the same job, she would only be hired as a housekeeper. In fact, she would be rejected as a waitress for the same reason that the author couldn’t become a housekeeper; the of color her skin. In today’s society, when someone thinks of a hotel maid, they think of a Latin woman who isn’t fluent in English. It is this very stereotype that affects the type of job a low-wage job a person receives simply because of the color of their skin and not their personal abilities.

Mookie performed a heroic contribution as he shifted the fighting away from Sal and towards Sal's Pizzeria. In fact Mookie saved Sal's life in the midst of everything. In the middle of the chaos the Korean man says, "I'm black, you, me, the same." This reflects how people in society try to fit into certain groups that seem to be the right thing to do at the moment.

➢ Has to do what: To decide to either confront Gilman and change what she perceives as sexist and/or racist practices or to leave the company

There will always be a new form of discriminating people who are not associated with the majority group. The name may change slightly, such as calling it nouvelle racism instead of what it really is. This article also disturbs me how they are portraying Asians in the movie. They are portraying Asians as stupid, cowardly, nasty, pitiable, weak, inferior, and helpless. They make out the Asians to not be smart, tough, or lucky enough to survive the journey. In the movie, the three adults plumage to their death, where are all of the whites survive. They do this in order to demonstrate that if they were white they would have survived because they would have been stronger and

Mercy faces an inescapable racial discrimination from the other races in the depths of her chinese community, Chinatown. A rule established by her community to set forward any misunderstandings was that “ the whites do not associate with the Chinese” since they were known to “sell away Chinese businesses and put workers into harsh conditions (58).” Whenever Mercy ever left Chinatown to explore more of San Francisco, she was faced with racial slurs and seen as a disgrace by the whites. The whites often would tell her to go back to Chinatown to avoid bringing tracks of dirt onto their streets and make her pay in order to pass through them. Another moment when she was encountered upon racial discrimination was during her first day at St.Clare’s School for Girls. Upon her arrival, her soon-to-be classmates had given the impressions that they had little understanding of her culture and talked behind her back saying derogatory comments. Rather than meeting each other, they made comments referring to her community saying “the girls in Chinatown hardly need English and they're all soiled (178).” Despite being confronted about her race, the discrimination follows Mercy even outside of her hometown. However, she doesn’t let the negative comments affect her, instead she gains advantage as she speaks about her Chinese

5) Aspects of this case involve multicultural issues because Juanita was complaining that all of her teachers where Caucasian. Juanita claimed that she wanted an African American teacher to teach her and because it would allow her to catch her attention better. Isabelle wondered if that would help Isabelle solve her problem. However, I feel that Juanita is just not motivated and come up with excuses about every situation that she does not want to be involved.

We see so much racism throughout the movie and some of it is justified. At the beginning of the movie we see a well to do white women clench the arm of her well to do white husband when she sees two black men, but then those same black men go on to steal their car at gun point. Is her concern justified or did would these men had left them alone if she would not have shown racism to them.

Starr’s race had contributed to this fear of her speaking out because there was this idea that minorities, African

Lauren tarshis and gray bradbury used different approaches to convey a similar theme in the day ms parks was arrested and all summer in a day. the sun haven't came out in 7 years and it finally came out so they was happy about that and they was unfair. because they treated them different. because rosa parks was black. and they treated her different because she is from earth so that,s why at the end rosa parks was able to seat anywhere she want to seat on the bus and she could not because she was black now she can seat anywhere. margo got out of closet and now they treat her right and now in conclusion don't treat people by where they from or by their skin color. NO ONE SHOULD BE TREATED DIFFERENT THAT'S NOT FAIR AT ALL. so don't do that

What I also found to be quite interesting and perhaps a weakness of the film, was the sense of performative racism that four of the main white characters utilize and how the makers of the film appeal to such a phenomenon through symbolisms as well. In the movie, there seems to be two main kinds of racism the characters exhibit, one of them being blatant racism and another being subtle racism through microaggressions. For example, Katherine experiences blatantly racist and misogynistic behavior from her coworkers, especially from Paul Stafford, the lead engineer (making groupthink much easier) and Ruth, the only other woman working in the office. On the other hand, Al Harrison and John Glenn appeal to the subtler sides of racism and performative white pity, Glenn going out of his way to shake the hands of the computers as the film attempted to paint a positive, “not-all-whites” picture of inclusion, acceptance and tolerance, a kind of racism that almost all of the white people in the film come to, by its end. Examples of this can be seen in scenes like the one in which Al Harrison smashes down the “coloreds” and “whites” restroom signs as if implying that doing so will abolish all racial inequalities with a couple of blows of blunt force. One could infer it seems, that paired with the groundbreaking stories of these three women, white people being decent human

In the film we see issues of race and racism as being a "white" problem, contrary to what we see in society as race and racism as being a "colored" problem. Victor and David Lee both make the statement that to be "American" is to be white. In society we usually see racism as individual acts of violence or discrimination towards others, but as David Lee points out, racism is an invisible system conferring unsought racial dominance by am oppressive group, mainly whites. "White power secures its dominance by seeming not to be anything in particular" (Lipsitz, 135). Victor says how he could get things his mother couldn't get just because his skin was a lighter black than hers. Lee then brings in a picture of Victor and his mother where the difference in skin color can be seen. Lee often brings in pictures of the participants of when they were young, and when they are with their families. This helps the viewers to draw more of identification with the characters.

Plot summary: Amir flashbacks to when he was twelve years old in Afghanistan. He lives with his father, Baba, and has two servants, Ali and Hassan, who are also a father and son duo. The latter two are Hazaras, Afghan’s minority, and as such, are subjected to racial slurs and cruelty. Amir and Hassan are playing when Assef, Kamal, and

Another issue in the movie was attitudes. All races have attitudes towards people that are not like their own, whether they are good or bad. Attitudes I believe are connected with experiences. What one experiences with another race can affect the way their attitude is towards them.

The film lookes at the prejudices between the families but did not touch on how interacial couples also have deal with societies biases against them. Being a interacial couple may come along with its shares of difficulties, diffrences between the indiviuals, famial prejudice, and societies prejudice.

Racism, prejudice and stereotyping, as the main themes of the movie, control all the sub-stories that are somehow linked to each other. Moreover, as the stories go on and events develop, it becomes possible to see how characters start to have changes in their perspective and attitude towards each other, either in a good or a bad way. An incident which can demonstrate our thesis on racism and stereotyping and how it might change in just one moment which brings people closer could be shown as the conflict between the racist police officer and the African American woman who gets harassed by him, and whose life is saved by him on the next day. The first encounter of the woman and the officer resulted with the woman