How Does Diversity Affect The American Dream

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One of America’s greatest attributes is its diversity. The United States was built on a foundation of a fusion of immigrants of different races, ethnicities, cultures, and creeds. As a result of this mass scale of diversity, the American economy and culture has thrived as a top country in the world. In addition, the US is highly regarded as one of the top countries to offer an equal opportunity to be successful no matter of an individual’s race, nationality, or religion. But, every society has a majority group that influence or dictate the cultural beliefs. With the influence of the majority results in major issues, in which, that American society hinders the minority groups from achieving the American Dream. This influence is displayed through stereotyping, chauvinism, prejudice, and racism. Therefore, this …show more content…

In that time period, I achieved accolades that reached the Pentagon and received prestigious awards for my hard work and dedication. I later found out that it was a northern stereotype of all southerners of being slow and of lower intelligence. It not only continued but also egressed into negative stereotypes of African American males. I was always deemed to be and angry black man even though admittedly by my peers I was never seen being angry or raising my voice. I am considered by many of having a tall and large stature, in which, induced the stereotype of being in prison. By a close co-worker I was told, “Brice, I know you are a very nice guy and never saw you angry, but I would hate to be in a dark alley at night with you.” I was confused by this statement because I would never myself be in a dark alley at night. So I questioned this individual why would you say that and why this reference wasn’t made to another co-worker who was white and dwarfed me. He response was, “He doesn’t count, he is white and you know you are

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