Assignment #3

By looking at my name, one can easily tell that I am Irish. I am a white 100% Irish girl, born and raised in America. Both my sides of my grandparents came over to America from Ireland. When looking at the Census questions 7 and 8, it would be easy for my to answer them. I would mark for question 7 no, not Spanish/Hispanic/Latino. And for question 8, I would mark white. Though these questions seem pretty easy for me to answer, I know that it is not the same for others.

After watching the video, a girl like me I feel as though that sociologically children for many decades have been brought up with the view of black being bad and white being good because of what has previously happened. When looking back at the older years with slavery and other complications that were brought to the blacks, I feel that, that was all they had to live by. That because they went through this, today children of that nature are brought up viewing the white being good and or better because that is what their parents are teaching them. Because that is what their parent taught them. I feel as though it’s like a chain that will never end.
The girls in the beginning of the video really bothered me for several reasons. At first I was angry at what they were saying, because I felt that they were basically saying that for attention. Then I thought about it, and though white people have their problems, the women of darker nature have similar but different problems. Many of the problems about their hair and or color made sense, because yet again, they were brought up thinking that way. That they aren’t beautiful the way they are. Many girls and women today have a very hard time going out in the world because most women feel that there is always something wrong with them. That not everything they are wearing looks nice, that they need to loose more weight, or even that they need to be lighter then darker. It’s sad to see women go through this. Unfortunately I feel that because sociologically that’s the way it has always been, it will always be. Which to me is very sad.