Ellis

Intersection of Race, Class, and GenderDifferent people have different ways on how they view intersections of race, class, and gender. Personally I have my own views and will show why I partially disagree with individuals who assume social statuses, assumptions, pictures, or words interconnect with race, class and gender through personal experience and with the help of others who agree and disagree with my views.When I was a young 2 year old girl I immigrated to the United States from Mexico with no choice or say in if or not I wanted to enter illegally to a new country. My parents made that decision without my consent because I was a young girl who could not speak or know what was going on and probably didn't care either. They decided to move to the United States because they wanted the best for me as far as education, living conditions, and better opportunities but mainly to live the American Dream. My parents and I aren't the only ones who immigrated to a new country such as the United States but thankfully we were one of the few that have crossed and made it alive trough that cold running river and burning desert. So far with what I have said I may be portrayed as a Mexican girl who immigrated to the United States and who has no Citizenship or Green Card, but that is incorrect. Many people give classifications to different individuals based on their race, class, or gender. As for I have been classified as an illegal alien who entered a new country illegally like have many other people. Charles, in "Seeing and Garcia 2Writing, has been classified as "Charles Barkley to my family. African American to the police..." (482). Charles has been classified under many categories except for his real persona: "Dutch, Indonesian, French, and German" (483). This here shows that people classify individuals based on their race even though sometimes they may be incorrect like Charles being mainly classified as African American but is a mixture of four other races excluding African American and I personally who is usually classified as Mexican but is really Mexican American. In addition Hispanics in Arizona can relate to Charles and I being intersected by race. They can relate to us because they have characteristics (race) that assimilate them with those of Mexicans, who are being asked for proof of citizenship or green cards due to entering illegally to the United States. As a result, Hispanics are being racial profiled due to their race being linked to those of Mexicans/immigrants. Furthermore, people are also linked through their class. For instance in "A Framework for Understanding Poverty", Ruby Payne describes and contrasts the three major social classes: wealth, middle class, and poverty. Payne does so by the use of three quizzes which help in determining "Could You Survive in Poverty. in Middle Class. in Wealth?" and by the use of a set of charts that have "hidden rules among the classes of poverty, middles class, and wealth."(38-41). Personally I agree and disagree with Dr. Payne. For instance when he states for the poor that money for them is "to be used, spent", for the middle class it is "to be managed", and for the wealthy it is "to be conserved, invested."(42-43). I agree with his assumption because that is what society has been introduced too but I disagree with his classifications. Individually I

Garcia 3am classified for the most part as middle class but when it comes to the money sector I fall under the poverty social level due to my tendency of spending money as soon as I get my hands on it. The reason for my action, in my opinion, is because of my race. My judgment is that Hispanics have a tendency to spend and make no investments or savings and Anglo Americans like to save. Although my way of thinking may be argued and proofed wrong to me it will remain acceptable not only because of research and papers I can argue with but because different people have different opinions and some of those opinions can't never be changed for the reason that people can be stubborn and loyal to what they believe in. Classification can be not only that of social classes but also characteristics that makeup a group/place. When my parents and I immigrated to the United States we settled in Dallas, Texas. And being from Texas I know what Texas is usually classified as. Texas is categorized as traditionalistic, a community with large Catholic/Christian followers, deep heavy accent, cowboys, and etc. Although some of that may be true, that is not what Texas has become over the years. Texas now has a low percentage of people who are dressed as cowboys, not everyone in Texas has a deep heavy accent (mainly in Deep South Texas but again not the majority of Texas), and with its growing population Texas has been not only classified as traditionalistic but also as individualistic. Many other countries are