Courtney is a white-American female. She feels that by being white, she has more advantages and opportunities than being a minority or of a different race. By being white, and part of a major race, people will respect her more and not look at her differently. She can blend into a crowed of the same kind of people and not feel different. I asked her what she meant by “differently” and she said that people look down upon people that

not change anything about her characteristics to fit into a crowed or to be someone else.

The middle class is what the majority of Americans fall under and Courtney does also. She grew up in a nice semi-secluded area with woods all around. Her mother is a receptionist and her father works in construction. She went to a private-catholic high school and was treated differently when she attended there. She said, “people just look at you differently then public kids..., like I was of a higher class.” By going to a private school, she was taught moral values. The only thing she didn’t really know about was the real world, the school kind of covered that up. Growing up, she always had the things she needed. Nothing was ever handed to her, she had to earn it. She said that if she were in the upper class, she would have more valuables and would receive them easier. She never had to worry about anything, “other classes, like the poor, have so many more problems than the middle class.” She was able to receive health care when the lower class didn’t have the means for medication or help. If she were of a different class, then she would be a different person by all means.

are of a inferior races than their own. She also said “its not that people are trying to be racist, but the white race is the dominate one and they get the majority of respect over Blacks and Hispanics.” If she was a different race, then there would be no doubt that her life and pers

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Blacks Hispanics”, Gender Theses, Biography Throughout, class gender, race class gender, race class, middle class, persons life characteristics, life characteristics, todays society, persons life, white-american female,