Social Inequality In The United States

With the current unrest occurring in our nation, it would both naïve and in many cause ignorant to believe that is not social inequality still happening each and every day. Social inequality itself can be described as the presence of unequal distribution of benefits and opportunities due to “the significance of a group’s hierarchies and statuses” in a society that drastically hinder one’s life by “setting limits and circumscribing one’s possibilities” (Henslin, 2012). Unfortunately, there are still a large number of instances of social inequality that are still occurring in today’s society with little change being conducted to change them. Personally, I have experienced a form of social inequality due to my gender. As a senior in high school, I worked at a local grocery store as courtesy clerk as known as a bagger. Fortunately, a few months after being

However, I do not believe that the full potential and benefits of living out that dream are attainable to every person regardless of race, gender, religion or sexuality. To achieve the totality of the “American Dream,” you simply have to be more Caucasian, male and wealthy. But like many in our society who are not any these things, you can only achieve a portion of this dream. Yes, a person who is not Caucasian, male and wealthy can become successful, buy an expensive car, live in affluent neighborhood and eat from the finest cuisine, but inside their minds as well as others around them enjoying such luxuries they will ask themselves if they belong? Why do they not get paid as much as others? Why people look at them with accusing eyes when they exhibit their success? And why there are so few of others are just as successful who are and look like? Altogether, I know the “American Dream” still exists, which is why I am so driven to achieve it, but I know that attainment of it as an African-American female will only be a portion of