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15 years ago @ World In Conversation - Why does society disli... · 0 replies · -1 points
Another major problem with the image of the immigrants is the fact that immigrants turn their backs on other immigrants that they are not related to. Once they are legal they try to keep out others. When the general public sees immigrants keeping out other immigrants it is a scary thought. Why would they keep out their own kind? Immigrants must work together in order to show the United States they are people just like the US citizens. If they help each other out they will possible be able to make gains in the views and treatment of immigrants. They shouldn’t support laws that undermine immigrant rights and increase the stop of immigration. Many citizens view these people as a threat because they are stealing jobs, changing culture, and not advocating for themselves. If these were all to change then possibly the public would be able to slowly change the stereotype of an immigrant.
15 years ago @ World In Conversation - Why does society disli... · 0 replies · -1 points
Another problem U.S. citizens have with immigrants is the spread of their culture and language. Many Americans believe they need to assimilate but what they don’t realize is that the current American culture is a mix of hundreds of cultures as people immigrated to this country for the last several hundred years. Businesses that put up signs limiting customers to use only English in their stores are just ignorant of the American heritage. If we all begin to speak English or Chinese, will there be signs saying those are the only appropriate languages? Many people fear this change and don’t want the immigrants to start anything new in the United States. This changing society is the main reason for fear and if people were to realize that change will occur and will always occur they might be more accepting of the immigrants.
15 years ago @ World In Conversation - Why does society disli... · 0 replies · +1 points
I believe that society dislikes immigrants because there is this fear that the immigrants will steal our jobs and take over our country. As Sam pointed out in class the jobs that immigrants are taking are low paying jobs which many Americans would never take. We shouldn’t care that they are taking those jobs when in fact we need them because they are helping our economy. In California the lack of immigrants was the main reason that people with farms failed at picking their crops in time. Hundreds of crops went unpicked and unsold and this entire problem could have been avoided with the right amount of immigrant labor. Prices would also be a lot higher if it were not for immigrant labor. With unions and the attitude of Americans toward blue collar work it would be hard to find anyone to work in factories or in fields for low wages. Immigrants are the perfect solution to this problem.
15 years ago @ World In Conversation - Do you think you would... · 0 replies · +1 points
As far as the race issues play in nepotism I can see how it is unfair. They don’t have the same connections as I will when I get out of school. The only way I can see this changing is by them networking while they are in school and taking full advantage of this opportunity. When they graduate and have children they will also have the same connections that the parents possessed and they will be able to go further than the previous generation. They can allow the networking and nepotism to continue to grow with in their families and eventually the will have the same advantages of everyone else. At my high school there was a black girl who had so many more connections than I. Her family was friends with many businessmen and politicians. She will go much further in life than I will with her connections and she will pass them down to her children as well. I believe that nepotism is a good thing.
15 years ago @ World In Conversation - Do you think you would... · 0 replies · +1 points
My dad’s company has merged with another and by next December he will be out of a job. He still stays in contact with all of his friends from his previous jobs. Even when he first started out at his new company he would email and go to lunch with previous coworkers. These connections are now paying off because they are all looking out for job openings in their companies for him. He can greatly benefit from this because him friends will give him a good recommendation at human resources and he will have an advantage over other applicants. In a time when my father is going to be out of a job and have three kids in college nepotism is necessary.
15 years ago @ World In Conversation - Do you think you would... · 0 replies · +1 points
As a business major I have learned that “networking” is the most important thing you can do. I’m in an honors co-curricular organization, Sapphire, and one of the main objectives of the organization is to allow young leaders to network. They hope that when we go out into the business world our connections will help us succeed. Business is not about how good you are or getting the most sales because you have to know someone to move up. The CEO’s son is going to move above any smarter employee in the same position. It’s just the way that business works. Personally, I will seek out nepotism because it’s what I have been taught to do. I think that it isn’t fair but nothing is really fair. As I learned in management there is a locus of control. If you have an internal locus of control you believe that you control your own life. People with internal locus of control make better managers. External locus of control is when you believe that other factors control your life. When you have internal locus of control you will take advantage of nepotism because you control your own destiny. These people will be more successful.
15 years ago @ World In Conversation - After this class, how ... · 0 replies · +1 points
After this lesson I have a different perspective on terrorists and the Middle East. Although I don’t think it is ever okay to kill thousands of innocent people in plane crashes or car bombs, the U.S. does partake in similar activities. The United State will kill 29 civilians for every bad guy and it is a lot less than a building of people but how many bad guys are there? The toll of civilians will certainly add up and the United States will be left with some blame. The Muslims look at the United States with the same fear we look at Muslims. The Muslims aren’t all just crazies out to kill the United States because we don’t believe in the same religion as them but because they think we are attacking them. Neither party is justified.
15 years ago @ World In Conversation - After this class, how ... · 0 replies · +1 points
When I look at a video of a radical Christian I laugh because I know that 99% of U.S. Christians aren’t like that. Sometimes I’ll even stereotype them by passing it off as an evangelical Southern Christian because we all know those are the worst (sarcasm). It never occurred to me that the people in the Middle East are looking at those same videos and thinking that everyone in America is just like that. While Americans are looking at children in Iraq holding guns, Muslims are watching American children becoming Christian crusaders and fighting for their religion. Their whole perception of the United States is the same as our perception of the Middle East. We know that in the U.S. there is only a few crazies and mostly people laugh at them. There are also people who are radical for other causes than just Christianity but the Muslims don’t see that because they only see what their government and media wants them to see, the same as in America.
15 years ago @ World In Conversation - After this class, how ... · 0 replies · +1 points
I found the Christian Crusaders lecture very interesting because I had never truly thought about terrorism that way. I knew that ever since 9/11 there has been this negative attitude toward Muslims and the extremist who killed thousands of people. After the attacks I remember how the US used color levels to signal the chance of an attack. It was most likely a scare tactic to get people on board with the war. The news would always be flashing the latest thwarted attack. The attackers were of course Middle Eastern looking. This fear in the United States was built on videos of crazy Muslims that planned to kill all Americans. The fear grew and people supported the war. America came together to take down the “horrible” people. I knew at the time that a lot of it was hype but I never imagined that the same hype in the United States was used in the Middle East.
15 years ago @ World In Conversation - Do you ever feel uncom... · 0 replies · +1 points
I recently watched the move Click with Adam Sandler and there was a scene where he was trying to make a deal with Japanese business men. He was completely screwing up the deal because of his lack of knowledge about the culture and the language. The Japanese businessmen decided to talk about the project away from the American men. In Japanese they said everything wrong with the project. Luckily Adam Sandler used the remote to change their language and hear want they waned in order to save the deal. In real life we don’t have remotes to change languages so real life can be difficult when communicating with people who speak different languages. These difference can make everyone feel uncomfortable.
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