I still think that the American dream exists, although with that being said, I believe that the “dream” is much different today than it has ever been before. The American dream today is more about the idea so to speak of achieving success. But at the end of the day what even is success? Working all your life to buy that Mercedes-Benz that you’ve dreamed about since you were a kid to only be able to finally afford it and to what? Sit in the drivers seat and turn on the ignition, and than its all over.

The American dream of the past consisted of a blue collar or middle class, preferably male, working his way up from nothing to build a better life for himself, that being—having a family, well=paid and respectable job, nice house, possibly a pet or two and living comfortably. That was the American dream. The American’s job may have been to work in butcher shops, coal mines and or American car companies in cities such as Detroit or Cleveland. Americans went to work forty hour work weeks plus to be the bread winners for their families. The American dream is now much different due to globalization and the downturned state that the United States economy has been in since 2008. More jobs are out sourcing their manufacturing to foreign countries where production is much cheaper versus that in the United States this has forced business and jobs to drastically shift.

The family idea has greatly changed as well with that of the American dream. The picture perfect family of the 1950s with very rare today with a divorce rate that is at a staggering 1 out of every2 marriages and with more and more families struggling with separation issues, this indefinitely has an impact on the families not only with the adults but with the children living at home too. The American dream is much more today than ever before of to the very least keeping one’s family together through all that the outside world as to effect on a single person and deriving one’s success through daily trials and tribulations.

The American dream does not have to die though., and it hasn’t. it has simply just changed as everything with the modern age. People need to believe in themselves and keep foothold to their morals and stand their ground and to that success will follow not far behind. After all, success isn’t measured by the number of material things one can say they have or all the people they have hurt or screwed over to get to their successful place but all they have accomplished abiding to their original morals, strengths and mental pursuits. The American dream is still very much alive today.

If Jerry Sandusky had been black or Latino I think the situation currently at hand would have been handled quite differently. For starters if the media broadcasted a black or Latino child molester who had been convicted of over forty different counts against young children on the Penn State campus for almost a decade, the media, public and political sector would have had an absolute field day to say the very least. This isn’t to say that the media hasn’t already spiraled Jerry Sandusky’s story all over front pages, websites and television stories across the country but the headlines and stories would have been portrayed drastically different if Sandusky had been a black or Latino male.

The situation at hand would have appeared much more aggressive, demeaning, violent and horrific if Sandusky had been a black or Latino male, instead of a white upper middle class middle aged male due to the stereotypes that go along with the persona of black and Latino males of all age groups. This is definitely unfortunate to say, because if Sandusky has been of a different race, ethnicity and was accused of the same allegations, essentially nothing would have been different except for the color of his skin, way of dress etc… This is quite problematic when dealing with the media because the minute a person is white the storied is immediately manipulated. This may not be fair and or politically correct but that is just the way things are today unfortunately. The stereotype that goes along with black and Latino males is a whole crime based or outlawed culture based on the perceived attitude this group of people is displayed as having based on distorted media, entertainment/ music industry culture and crime statisitcis based on gender, race and nationality. Unfortunately these two groups are portrayed as worse off or the ones guilty or violent situations whether they are actually guilty of the crime at hand or not. In the case with jerry Sandusky that is currently going on, if Sandusky had been a black or Latino male there would have been media and great public out-lash and strong grievence for the victims because the accusations would have undoubtly been portrayed as more risky, violent and exposed. Luckily for the sake of the reputation of Penn State and for Sandusky himself that he was in fact a white male and not a black or Latino male. The time Sandusky may have been sentenced to could have been different (even though he has not been found guilt or non-guilty yet) if he had been of a different race, and he would have been portrayed as a greater risk throughout the years if his race has been different.

I think that there are many external factors that contribute to the reasons for which the human race is naturally, and so quick to pass judgment against others. External factors that contribute to why people pass judgment include, things about different kinds of people and where people are from through their upbringing—whether its their parents, siblings. Another reason may include, the school environment from which students learn and learn from their peers as well as media outlets that share the way one thinks based on their political views and socio-economic standing. Another reason may include, the orientation of a person as well as their gender. In my opinion all of these factors contribute to the reasons who which people are so quick to pass judgments against others.

People are so quick to pass judgment against others because of the way they were brought up. When a person is born, there’s a fresh clean slate, unaware of social surroundings, free of opinions, interests, likes and dislikes. A person does not even understand how to verbally communicate for the first few years of their life, thus from infancy, people listen to and watch the people who are around them most—who raise them to be the future of the world and thus with this, people pick up others opinions on the world. A person can’t pass judgment if they have not been informed prior of something associated with a peer, whether its where they’re from, their gender, what they physically look like, how much money they have or how they talk. Judgment is made when a person see or hears something that they do not instantly relate to or find something appealing that interests them or they feel threatened.

A substantial reason why so many people are so quick to pass negative, confrontational, or anger related judgment against others is that they feel others or whoever it is that they’re passing judgment towards are from jealous, or anger towards another for reasons that the other person may not even know of, just the person gets mad from pre-conceptions from someone or for example, a girl may have a pair of boots another girl wants and the girl passing judgment may say that the girl in the boots looks ugly I general or ugly in them and it’s not because she actually thinks the girl looks ugly in them, she probably thinks that the girl looks really good in them but simply because she is jealous of the other girl she is going to feel jealous or hate because actually she is the one who wants the boots and because she cannot have them she is going to get unreasonable mad and pass judgment. Not that this is okay but it isn’t actually passing judgment its just making up for the loss the the person who is passing the judgment actually truly feels.

All in all, I don’t think that Americans are lazy or are getting these hard labor, minimum wage jobs taken from them because I think we can all agree on, more likely than not, these are all jobs that we wouldn’t take if we had other opportunities due to the money, working conditions, hours, hard labor etc… I simply think that these immigrants are willing to work for the money harder because they have been taught to work this way their whole lives for much less and even a little bit of money means so much more to them where they’ve grown up in a country where it’s so much harder to make a living versus in the United States and so they are going to be prone to leap at these opportunities versus Americans who are going to wait it out for the better job opportunity because that’s what we’ve grown up being taught and are used to in this country.

. The vast majority of the Mexican population is forced to, or grown up their whole lives working outside, doing the hard labor jobs that pay under the table/ very little versus a professional job with a degree certificate required.
So when Mexican immigrants come over and into the United States illegally they are solely looking for a better life to make more money which will lead them to greater opportunities. This is their sole purpose, whether it is doing hard labor, dealing/ transporting drugs back and forth, whatever the case may be they are just trying to make money, but isn’t everyone? Thus, Mexican immigrants are going to take up the hard labor or minimum wage jobs in this country that aren’t necessarily going to ask for or look for valid citizenship for the employee, while the employer is just looking to get around paying taxes on his workers or save some extra money.

Mexico today, is still considered a developing country because of its historic government instability which has profound effects on the country’s peoples and the institutions, systems, unions and policies that have never been given the opportunity to come to be or get off the ground because the harsh and strict government runs its operation throughout the country like a monopoly and is solely focused on increasing its revenues—I.e. the vast problem of the drug trade, drug market/ distribution and the drug cartels that are virtually running the country by people’s horror of them, money and power. With such a small group compared to the over 112 million that inhabit Mexico, one would think that this problem wouldn’t be so profound and have such impacting effects, but in reality it happens to since this small group holds most of the wealth or at least a great deal of the wealth of the country and the vast majority of the population has little to nothing, can barely read and write, cannot go to school either because they are not allowed, cannot afford to or must support their families to which they belong and here inlays the problem.

In my opinion I feel like Americans won’t do the hard labor that Mexicans will do not because we are too lazy, or do not want to but are not used to doing such things. Growing up in America versus Mexico, the society ideal is to start school as young as five years old and continue on through high school, graduate and attend college and hopefully even graduate or professional school afterwards. The ideal isn’t to go work out on the farms, picking vegetables or fruit, do construction or hard-labor to make ends meet to feed your impoverished family because of the unequal and unfair corrupt government system in being, that is just not how it is, but that’s how it is in Mexico.

Another problem that will rise in this country in the future when whites become the minority population is that industries and ways of life in general will definitely see a shift. I believe that there will be far greater Hispanic influence in culture and everyday day to day ways of life in this country from advertising, foods, customs, what’s for sale in the stores etc…. This switch in the ways of everyday life and culture to one that is currently foreign to the majority of the citizens of this country today will durastically change things for the future and for our grandchildren and great grandchildren etc … This is another problem that will arise from whites becoming this country’s minority in the future.

Another problem that will rise when whites become the minority in this country is when the mixed races of brown and black people who have felt oppressed in history and many today who still feel great inequalities and unfair treatments in the job markets etc… are going to want to rebel against the new minority, the “whites” who are naturally now going to feel inferior to this new popular face in the future and there is going to be wide spread corruption and violence and deaths of the “white” population who have been the oppressors to these peoples in history and there are going to be far greater problems down the line. I could definitely see this becoming a problem in the future when the white population in this country becomes the new minority peoples.

In my opinion when whites eventually become the minority in this country there is going to be a serious problem for all of the “whites” who were too ignorant to learn and pick up a second language such as Spanish, as easy as it is because soon the most widely spoken language next to English when whites become the minority in this country will be Spanish. If people are not able to pick up Spanish or know enough of the language Spanish speaking people are going to take over major job and businesses and hire fellow Spanish speaking employees and the teachers are going to be Spanish speaking and they will be teaching Spanish to the future children in this country but the people who don’t know the language yet are still not going to know it and I doubt are going to be that willing to go out and learn a second language such as Spanish right away. This will only be one of the major problems that the “whites” of this country will face in this country when whites become the minority in this country.