Final Blog

Throughout this class, I have learned that much more defines me than I thought. Not only the people and things I come in contact with, but my race, my class, and my culture. I have discoverd through class and through my service experiences that the way we define race is important. When I went to Onward House, almost all of the kids were hispanic, and this was in waht seemed to be a more impovershed but not horribly impoverished part of Chicago. In our school, there is not nearly as high of a percentage of hispanic people, many are white and our school is a more upper class school. This shows that race does have an impact on where you live. Class also has made me who I am. Being born into an relatively upper middle class family, I go to a good high school, am supposed to go to a good college, and should get a good job. This is a direct result of class. Someon who is born into a lower social class is influenced by that and does not have the opportunities that a high class has the privealge to have. Also culture has been a huge influence for me. It tells me what to like and what not to like, what is cool and what is not, and how I should talk and act. Culture may be perhaps the biggest influence on me. Thakin this class has really helped me to understant myself and others.