Beautiful Kiri Davis Analysis

Society, in its original purpose, formed to serve the community. It consisted of individuals working towards the benefit of the group, as well as themselves. Although, overtime, society’s intent changed. We, as a society now, collectively attribute to everyone becoming blindly ambitious towards reaching a position complacent to the existing state of affairs. Yet, one, or even many influential people can rupture the societal control and attain true freedom. Such individuals can even liberate many others around them. Moreover, various works of art and literature display how someone submits to the status quo over time or refuses to conform to society’s standards. For instance, Bobbie Harro details how people become placid and content with the …show more content…
Individuals are sometimes secretly ashamed of the physical characteristics common to their ethnicity and strive to look like something deemed beautiful by everyone else. In the article “Beautiful?” by Kiri Davis, the author describes how children in America are collectively influenced into following the dominant culture. “As children growing up in America we are acculturated by mainstream society to believe as the dominant culture believes. Sometimes even our schools keep us ignorant of who we are and distort or omit versions of our history”. In other words, the very school system we enrolled in is very well capable, and willing, to leave out certain information to better conform us to their set standards and ideas. Many are able to recognize the importance of being prideful of one’s race and seeing the characteristics associated with it as beautiful. They essentially “wake up” and realize the importance of their culture and heritage, in terms of Harro’s article “The Cycle of Liberation”. However, society’s is not just based appearance, it is often based on status, actions, and even the way you carry yourself. Many characteristics are taken into account within a society if not all of them are met by someone; they can either become an outcast, or a …show more content…
They undergo systematic conditioning since birth to conform to the existing state of affairs; however, everyone has potential to resist. Waking up to, the societal control is very well possible, yet not everyone will do so. It is up to the ones who realize the truth about the world around them to enlighten those who still reside in a state of ignorance. Some members of society are blind with ambition to meet society’s standards, and fail to see the empty accomplishment of meeting the status quo. Instead, we should strive to change it for the better because how can something improve while we are content with the way things are. We all must strive for perfection, knowing, as humans, we will never reach