White Privilege

Being born and raised in America I have been aware of the subtleties of racism in daily life. I as a white American, am statistically more likely to be more successful than other minorities in America. There are two worlds in America. One is of the well-to-do, and the other is the impoverished. Although my mother is Italian, I a predominantly white, but while Italians are not the poorest group of people in the country, they have suffered their fair share of hardships. Many people will also tell you that we are beyond racism in the workplace, how ever discrimination still takes place every day. There are more unemployed minority citizens than Caucasians. Luckily, there are things attempting to fix this like Affirmative Action. As much as everyone would like to thing that America is the perfect society or a "melting pot", there will always be an element of prejudice in our country. I believe that people inherently don't approve of something that is different to them. Everyone is a little bit racist.  There is no hiding it, we all have pre-conceived notions about groups of people. People also tend to believe that their race or ethinicity is better somehow than anyone else's and that certain groups of people are a certain way. If this nation is ever going to overcome racism, people are going to have to simply get over themselves. It is hard to prove it, but it would seem that white people in America are automatically more privileged than non-whites. This is upsetting, as we know America to be the land of opportunity. Most people would blame the government for this, which may be a rightful blame. Conservative politicians are only or mostly concerned with the rich individuals of the nation. The Poor people of the country do not have very much of a voice in the legislation. Poor people in poor communities receive  poor education, and have poor job opportunities, the cycle is never ending and it is sad. There is not much that can be done about it, the only thing that i can really do about it is realize how privileged I am. I also try to not take any of the privileged for granted. There are lots of people who are less fortune than I am just because of their race or ethnicity. It makes me sad the way society is, but I know that the more people become informed about these issues, the more understanding everyone can be.


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