Neverendingwarwithsociety 1
Neverendingwarwithsociety 1
Neverendingwarwithsociety 1
Do you run your life every day? Do you choose the clothes you wear at school? These
things are the parts of society that you act in, not by choice but by society running your life every
day. This Social system is the voice in your head telling you what to do every time you turn on
the tv, walk outside or communicate with your peers and friends. There are different social
groups in the world, targets and agents. Targets are social groups that are discriminated and
looked down on from agent groups, they are not the norms of society for example, gays,jews,and
people of color. Agents are the dominant groups of society and are the norms of the social groups
for example, white people, heterosexuals, middle and upper class people. In the article The
Cycle of Socialization, by Bobbie Harro a quote states how agent groups are looked on in
society,Dominant or agent groups are considered the norm around which assumptions are
built, and these groups receive attention and recognition. Agents are considered more important
in the roles of society compared to target groups, Bobbie Harro states another quote explaining
targets, On the other hand , there are many social identity groups about which little or nothing
is known because they have not been considered important enough to study. Agent groups
considered less important to the agent groups because they are not considered normal. Targets
and agents run society and are the the everyday people in our lives. In different situations we are
all targets and agents at some point in our life. To be a man takes too much effort and is in some
cases not a man to me if it takes away your true self when in the long run it would end up
showing the white privilege in society by doing what it wants you to do.
What is a man? Can you choose? Society chooses a mans fate if you give into the life
that controls everything you do. Society stereotypes a man to be tough, fearless, gets girls, rude,
and a rebel to rules these days. In Matt De Penas book Mexican WhiteBoy, page 28, a quote
states how danny is making his dad think he is the perfect image man, How much stronger and
darker and more mexican I am. Matter of fact, just today I knocked some kid out. He lied to his
dad so he could believe he was the son to come back to when in reality he was a boy that
believed he was an overachiever of manhood to his father.When I was in middle school, my
peers would tell me the aspects of being a man for example, If i didn't get into fights while i was
in middle school i was considered a wimp. At school boys and so called men are controlled by
stereotypes, not themselves. Are you not a man if you don't follow these exact brutal rules?
Guess so. My parents tell me a man is respectful, nice , has integratory, and is responsible, They
are completely opposite from what you hear from your friends and enemies. I believe that I am a
man not because I have tried to follow the man rules given directly from society, but from
learning from my parents and watching what the true acts of being a man accomplish.
Throughout history the caucasian race or white has had advantages over other ethnicities
for centuries because of better welfare. Does God choose favorites because of their skin color,
and because they have bigger advantages than everyone else that is not like them.? The word
white means pure, peaceful, clear minded, black is considered dark, soulless, blurry. Is this
racist? Yes it is why does a man have to look down on someone not the same as them? White
people and the white race has had better privileges and better advantages since the beginning of
man. In the Article by Peggy Mcintosh, White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack, a
quote states how other ethnicities are looked upon other than white, In proportion as my racial
group was being made confident, comfortable, and oblivious, other groups were likely being
made unconfident, uncomfortable, and alienated. Slavery of natives, african americans,
hispanics, jews has been constant throughout the centuries, and yet slavery has ended through
Mask Paragraph
My mask is representing a dividend of two sides of society. One Side is representing
how I have been socialized through my family and true friends, it is a representation of a pure,
good, and original way of being socialized. This part is white scattered with black paint and this
because the white represents the pure part of the family and friends and the black smothering it
represents the other side affecting it. The other side of the mask is the part of socialization that I
have been taught through school, sports team, and my community outside of my family. This
part of the mask is black smothered in white because the black represents unclear and unsure
of what i'm doing and learning this way. The white smothering the black part of the mask shows
that i'm being affected by the family side also. The smothering on both parts of the mask show
how i'm being affected by both sides by those sides of how i've been socialized. On top of all of
that are question marks representing confusion of the two and i'm trying to figure everything out.
Arrows are on the mask pointing to each side showing how the two are connected. All in all the
mask is dark because i am still trying to figure out how to live the social life i want so the future
of it isn't so bright yet.