final blog maybe not

what makes me who i am? well lets see like i have said i am very different from a lot of the kids at Stevenson high school. I have experienced many curve balls in life. After being in sociology, i would change somethings i have said in the first blog about what makes me who i am. The biggest change for me is that i always thought my mother was my biggest influence but after being in sociology i realized everything around me has an influence on my choices. When i learned that my mind is trained to think in a certain way with out me knowing, i know sometimes notice myself doing these things. I also realized that humans is not the only thing that makes us who we are, the things we buy and consume also makes us who we are and that gives us an identity of class. I never really knew that just by wearing something or the way i act will put in a class. What i dont understand is how did this all start? why do we have different classes? Overall i say that this class has changed the way i think in general in so many ways. Thanks Sal I had a lot of fun this semester.

racism

I often tell myself to not look at people as what color they are or where they are from and i realized that even though i as trying to not do that i still often look at people by there race. It all turns out that this is how i have learned to think growing up in this society. I sometimes look at people and put them in a certain group just because of there skin color. Often this is in my unconsciousness of me. knowing that its not right to judge people by their appearance, physical body features, and the way they act, many of us still do this without knowing that we are doing it. The way we are raised in this society is what makes us have this unconsciousness racism in us. People all around us influence us from the moment we are brought into this world. For example, when black people hate the white people for being racist against them, it makes the blacks just as racist for hating on the white people. But either way its not right for both colors to hate each other just because they may have different skin colors.

economic mobility

After playing Monoply in class today, I saw how big of a difference it could be just by what you are born into the world with. Even though it was just a game, I tried to look at it like in a real life situation. For example, for people who have money in this world. If they end up in jail, they could just easily bail themselves out like in the game where you could pay a fine. But if you were born into a lower class it probably be a lot harder for you or your family to bail yourself out. On top of that there is also court fees, paying for a lawyer, and maybe even probation fees. Just like in the game I started off being the second riches, so it wasn't to bad at all since I had a lot of extra money to spend. But for the guy who was the Iron struggled the whole game and ended even owing a lot of money to others who were also playing the game. If this was in a real life situation the man owing money could end up homeless, in jail, or maybe something even worse could happen. But I guess even if you started out with nothing by really trying hard in life you can do anything or be anything you want. I know this is true because my parents came to the United States with not a lot at all to start off with, they didn't speak any english and both of them have never gone to high school. Now they own a home and is giving me the opportunity to have a good education that they never got the chance to experience growing up.

Class

After watching even a little part of the movie in class, I learned and started to think how much someone will think of you just by what you have, how you act, and where you live. It is so amazing that we all grow up not really realizing we buy and want different things base on how and where we are raised. You are also put in a class just by who your friends are. One other thing that i experience from having different groups of friends is that i am treated looked at very differently when we go out in public or even at school. If i am hanging with a group of friends that dress a little less formal aka ("ghetto" or baggy clothes), people look at us like we are up to know good. but when i am with my other group of friends with dress in a nice shirt or a polo when we go out to public people don't look at us like when i am with the other group. I think that people shouldn't just judge people by what people have, how much money people got, and what other people are wearing. And everyone should care a lot less about what other people thinks and start thinking for themselves.

My expeirence in jail

When i first got to the Lake County jail i was finger printed on this new automatic machine. Then i waited in the bullpen(processing room). This is when you wait to get ur bracelet with ur picture and bar code on it. After finally being put in a cell all by myself, all i herd in the cell was the air blowing through the went. One i was in the cell by myself around 12 pm just like the guy in the show we watched i couldn't sleep no matter how i lay there. It was also freezing in the cell and the blanket was thinner then my shirt, this made it a lot harder to sleep too. Since i couldnt sleep i thought about a lot things. i thought about all the people i have hurt especially my mother. In my head i kept on saying to myself that how dumb i was to get into what i was doing. I had thoughts of things just racing through my head, i couldnt even control it. The last thing is that the food was probably just as bad as picking out of the garbage. The most interesting thing that i saw during that day and a half period was in the holding cell where a homeless man was so happy to be in jail. while in the holding cell he told me "tonight i am going to sleep like a baby". The whole expeirence of those two days made me a whole new person and the way i think of life.

Reebox Tone Toning Shoes

After learning about how girls are not respected in the media, i saw a video that relates a lot to what we talked about in class. Reebok came out with these shoes called Reebok tone toning shoes. The shoes are suppose to help you tone and burn your legs but in the commercial they talk about making your butt bigger. As the girl is explaining that to the camera man, the camera man is aiming at her butt. This is like what we talked about how girls are portrayed in the media.

what is a real man?

Why should a dude be called a man just because he has a lot of muscle on him. I think a real man is someone who is respected for the good things he has done not because of his size and who he can beat up. I real man shouldn't care about what another person has to say about him. If someone says sometime that offends you, a MAN would just brush it off and ignore it rather then getting in the other guys face and wanting to fight. Over the years i have realize to that being a man is not all about fighting. Starting freshman year i use to want to fight who ever talked bad about me behind my back. Now it was not a big deal at all to me, someone can talk all the smack they want behind my back because it isnt hurting me . the only thing the person that is talking about me is accomplishing is making themselve look stupid.