What I learned from the penny game we played is that once you've failed to make something of yourself, you never will. Sadly, I lost the first round of the game, and for the rest of the class period i sat around talking to my friends. I did nothing productive when i should've or could've been winning some pennies. This idea goes with the idea that the incarcerated stay in prison because they can't change themselves. It gives me the mentality that once you're down, you're always down. Of course, with the exception of a good handful.
In Sal's blog about this topic, he noted that hispanics are more over the poverty line than whites, which brought me to the point that it is so unfortunate that foreigners have such a harder time earning money. It really sucks to have the disadvantage of a job because you aren't from this country. My parents are immigrants and my siblings and I are the first generation in my family ever to be born in America. My parents have worked so hard to keep up with supporting three kids, owning a house, currently owning three cars, and on top of that owning lots of pets(my sister and I are suckers for animals). None of that ever adds up to cheap. And both of my parents have struggled with jobs due to their accents. They've been limited because of it. So if America's "ways" tend to be that once you've reached the top, you stay at the top, how will immigrants every reach the top? (again, with the exception of a good amount still)
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I can relate to the second part of your blog like your parents my parents are also not from the United States so they are foreigners, and like you and your sister me and my brother are also first generation of our families. I feel that our parents have to work so much harder to have a good and better life because our parents did have that language barrier and they don't understand everything we understand now today which makes everything harder and them and their lives.
I understand what you are saying about social class, and I totally agress. As a third generation American I can't really relate with teh hardships of an immigrant life, but what I can relate to is the fact that my parents work super hard for every penny they have. We may not be immigrants or have an acent but the social restrats of Americas perpetual system knows no race, no gender, no religon.
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