Thursday, October 18, 2012
Blog #3
In today's society, there are many things that people feel passionate about. In today's society, no matter how many changes are made no one is ever going to be completely equal. One of these issues is gay rights. Gay marriage is not legal in all 50 states. The inequality in this situation is the fact that straight people can practice their romanic interests and get married while gay people cannot get married in certain places. People involved in this issue feel passionate because they can't control their feelings, especially if it has something to do with genetics. I personally cannot relate to this issue; however, I do believe that everyone should be able to have their ideal relationship with whomever they want, where-ever they want. It does not make any sense for people to be discriminated against when the discriminators might love someone of their own. The only difference is the gender. Also if someone is against gay marriage, and it has no way of affecting them, not fair because that is rude. This insanity is inexcusable because there is no reason to discriminate against something that will not change society dramatically. If having different religions is acceptable, why can't different sexualities be accepted? I don't think that anyone would ever understand the position that people dealing with severe issues like civil rights and gay rights. With that being said they have no room to talk until they are in their situation. People can pick who they associate with so if gay marriage was to be legalized in more than one area than it wouldn't mean that people had to be involved with these people.
Thursday, October 11, 2012
Parenting #2
In today's culture kids are granted with a ton of trust. Some kids deserve this trust, and some kids do not. As far as parents go, today parents need to trust their kids. To establish this trust, one should be as good of friends with their kid as possible, without demolishing their authority. Another thing to consider when parenting is that you are an example for your kids. You need to find a balance of not being so strict that your kids want to rebel, and not being so aloof that it provokes your kids to do bad things. When finding this balance a parent should consider the example they are setting, and what you teach your kids early on carries on throughout life, for example manners. The first thing anyone notices when meeting you for the first time i your body language and manners. From meeting someone for the first time, to doing a job interview, manners are a crucial skill every individual needs. In this day and age there is also technology to consider. Many people abuse this privilege. You see on the news too frequently that kids are using texting and social network in destructive way. When dealing with any situation like this, parents should continue enforcing the same the same rules throughout development so kids know what is acceptable. If consistency is not maintained kids can easily find ways around rules and establish their own set of rules and way of life. If kids are going away from the values you have taught them, then deal with problems as they come and go because you still want them to have individuality. One can adjust their level of trust according the situation.
As far as my parenting will go, it will depend on the gender of my kid. With my lessons through sports and such, I think it is really important for a kid to be committed to something whether it be a sport, or something musical. For a boy child, I am going to less protective because they have a lesser amount of complications. I am going to make sure they are a gentlemen and that they are able to be open with me. I personally think if a boy can be open with their mom they are going to be respectful to others and specifically girls. It will be really important to me that they are respectful to everyone. With girls, there is a lot more drama. I am going to do my best to make sure the girl(s) are once again committed to something and that they know the world does not revolve around them. I want them to learn how to be respectful, so when other girls are brats, they know they do not have to be like that too and that they are better people than that. Seeing various parenting styles of my family members, I want to make sure that each of my kids has individual attention as well as shared attention. I also despise when parents ignore their children for their sanity. It just isn't fair. Those are my views on parenting.
As far as my parenting will go, it will depend on the gender of my kid. With my lessons through sports and such, I think it is really important for a kid to be committed to something whether it be a sport, or something musical. For a boy child, I am going to less protective because they have a lesser amount of complications. I am going to make sure they are a gentlemen and that they are able to be open with me. I personally think if a boy can be open with their mom they are going to be respectful to others and specifically girls. It will be really important to me that they are respectful to everyone. With girls, there is a lot more drama. I am going to do my best to make sure the girl(s) are once again committed to something and that they know the world does not revolve around them. I want them to learn how to be respectful, so when other girls are brats, they know they do not have to be like that too and that they are better people than that. Seeing various parenting styles of my family members, I want to make sure that each of my kids has individual attention as well as shared attention. I also despise when parents ignore their children for their sanity. It just isn't fair. Those are my views on parenting.
Sunday, October 7, 2012
Blog #1
Blog #1
The definition of racism has changed dramatically over time. In the early and mid 1900s, there was a simple difference between people, the color of their skin. People used differences to make themselves feel superior. Although it is for other reasons then skin color; today differences are still used to make people more confident in themselves. They basically rely on the misery of others to make themselves feel better. But who is "they"? Does anyone know this question?
In today's society, it is not what people look like that causes separation. The social standards of society are what draw lines between people. People associate stereotypes with these standards. This is another contributing factor to a separtation of races. For example, in today's hit music many of the rap songs happen to be African American artists. This happens to cause a stereotype in people's minds because there is a race majority.
Although there is separation and race relations can be an issue, in my daily life there are minimal complications. I can't help but see an improvement in race relations. At a normal day at school there is a massive amount of interracial dating and after talking to my grandmother, this would not have been acceptable. The younger kids are getting the more races are intermingling. This is all very positive. Another thing I notice on a daily basis is the mingling with in a race. This is neither a good or bad thing. When you see groups of people of the same decent, they act similar and go either up or down to the level of those people. (This does not only pertain to race it can also go along with intelligence). Also I personally think it is a level of comfort that people have around people of the same ethnicity. For example, (this is obvious) but if someone was with a family the spoke a different language, they would be afraid to talk and say the wrong thing in that language.
These are just a few examples of today's relations, but overall I think races are becoming closer in general because of things such as public school, and all of the freedom in the United States.
The definition of racism has changed dramatically over time. In the early and mid 1900s, there was a simple difference between people, the color of their skin. People used differences to make themselves feel superior. Although it is for other reasons then skin color; today differences are still used to make people more confident in themselves. They basically rely on the misery of others to make themselves feel better. But who is "they"? Does anyone know this question?
In today's society, it is not what people look like that causes separation. The social standards of society are what draw lines between people. People associate stereotypes with these standards. This is another contributing factor to a separtation of races. For example, in today's hit music many of the rap songs happen to be African American artists. This happens to cause a stereotype in people's minds because there is a race majority.
Although there is separation and race relations can be an issue, in my daily life there are minimal complications. I can't help but see an improvement in race relations. At a normal day at school there is a massive amount of interracial dating and after talking to my grandmother, this would not have been acceptable. The younger kids are getting the more races are intermingling. This is all very positive. Another thing I notice on a daily basis is the mingling with in a race. This is neither a good or bad thing. When you see groups of people of the same decent, they act similar and go either up or down to the level of those people. (This does not only pertain to race it can also go along with intelligence). Also I personally think it is a level of comfort that people have around people of the same ethnicity. For example, (this is obvious) but if someone was with a family the spoke a different language, they would be afraid to talk and say the wrong thing in that language.
These are just a few examples of today's relations, but overall I think races are becoming closer in general because of things such as public school, and all of the freedom in the United States.
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