Diversity In The Great Gatsby
The Trouble with Diversity After going over this reading, I realized the importance of attempting to get rid of the lower class, in the sense of the poor no longer being poor. Even if that isn’t an attainable goal, I feel us as a society at least need to change the way the lower and upper class are recognized as. I enjoyed the connection that was made to the story, “The Great Gatsby”, “the fact that Gatsby has made a great deal of money isn’t enough to win Daisy Buchanan back. Rich as he has become, he’s still ‘Mr. Nobody from Nowhere,’ not Jay Gatsby but Jimmy Gatz.” (Michaels pg. 674). Our Society may have gotten much better at race diversity, but we still have a huge problem with the way we see and treat people from different classes. These
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Someone can be part of the upper-class because they worked really hard to make more money and get to where they are. Though, people are handed money on a silver platter from birth and that’s how they received their wealth, others had to stay on the grind and work harder than those who weren’t willing to. But, many people won’t know this and still treat the upper-class differently, even though those who are rich could have the same personalities and act the same as those of lower-class. The economic differences can cause more problems than the topic of races. Over the years, in my opinion, we have gotten extremely better at limiting racism. Even if, again my opinion, racism is never eliminated, it is less of an issue than it was 10-20 years ago. With that being said, we as a society need to focus our attentions to the issue of economic diversity. It’s sad to know that many from a lower-class don’t receive the same opportunities at grand resources as people from an upper-class do. That is also said, that even if the race, or heritage, or personality is treated with equality, at the end of the day the classes are the deciding factors. Diversity can always be debated, but it’s which form of diversity is a bigger problem and
Someone can be part of the upper-class because they worked really hard to make more money and get to where they are. Though, people are handed money on a silver platter from birth and that’s how they received their wealth, others had to stay on the grind and work harder than those who weren’t willing to. But, many people won’t know this and still treat the upper-class differently, even though those who are rich could have the same personalities and act the same as those of lower-class. The economic differences can cause more problems than the topic of races. Over the years, in my opinion, we have gotten extremely better at limiting racism. Even if, again my opinion, racism is never eliminated, it is less of an issue than it was 10-20 years ago. With that being said, we as a society need to focus our attentions to the issue of economic diversity. It’s sad to know that many from a lower-class don’t receive the same opportunities at grand resources as people from an upper-class do. That is also said, that even if the race, or heritage, or personality is treated with equality, at the end of the day the classes are the deciding factors. Diversity can always be debated, but it’s which form of diversity is a bigger problem and