Saiduzzaman sikder
ENG 101

Status and class discrimination.
Status is the things that shape society. It creates the discrimination. When we look to the society we can see the diffe3rent kind of class still exist. The society divided them into Upper class, middle class and lower class. A person from upper classes he thinks hi is superior and the discrimination start form there. There is another kind of status difference we can see in the immigration. In this field the discrimination is very intense. We forget our humanity when the immigration status came to us. The people from our society want to keep their status by any cost, as a result they start the discrimination. They feel the pressure to keep their status.
In the article from NY Times “when the joneses wear the jeans” by Jennifer Staienhauar may 29 2005 write about how the American people are fighting to keep maintain their status. as she wrote in he article” fully 81 percent of Americans said they had felt social pressure to buy high-priced goods.” The American people to maintain their class identity, they wear expansive dress and lifestyle. According to the article they use This is an America of $130,000 Hummers and $12,000 mother-baby diamond tennis bracelet sets, of $600 jeans, $800 haircuts and slick new magazines advertising $400 bottles of wine. According to the American Personal Chef Association, they are taking ever more exotic vacations, often in private planes. They visit plastic surgeons and dermatologists for costly and frequent cosmetic procedures. And they are sending their children to $400-an-hour math tutors, summer camps at French chateaus and crash courses on managing money. They send their kids to expensive private school. Those kids get the idea that they r the superior then other ordinary public school in their mind. As a result the racism and discrimination start from their childhood.

Annotated Bibliography :blog post #7

I read the article "when the Joneses wear jeans" from New York times by Jennifer Steinhauer. In this article she talked about social class and status.she discussed about the higher class life style and the middle class. how a person face difficulties to maintain his status. what make the difference between class status.

The other article i read from the newspaper Daily News " Cops frisk policy is out of control:it creates a climate of distinct in minority neighbourhood." by Rev. AL Sharpton. The article said the racial discrimination and the immigrant status. In the article he wrote in 2009 black and Latino were in new york nine time more likely stooped by police than white. He also criticised about the recent Arizona immigrant harassment. Immigrant were discriminated by cops for their immigrant status.

blogpost#6

I read the interview the airline stewardess from Terkel. I see in this interview how her status change in different circumstance. In her hometown people talk about her with respect even her father feel proud for the job. But it is not honorable to the first class passenger on board.They treats like a maid servant.The way the ordered. On board the stewardess has to keep smiling even the passenger treat them improper way. I do not find any stable status for airline stewardess. But i see how the status make a person arrogance. According to the interview, the first class passenger treat like they pay more so they want more. their attitudes are different from others coach passenger. i think the reason is they pay more that's why they want more. They are Superior then other passenger. This thing arise a question in my mind that, is status creates the discrimination?

Another interview i read the Doorman. he works in big apartment building in upper west side. he work forty one year in the same building. he knows all the residence of this building. he express his agony from his mind that when the tenant see him in the street they pretend the don't know him. Even when the met in the same restaurant for eating they never say him hi! It may the tenant thought if they say hi him it is going to disgraceful for them. This expression bring another question in my mind that ,Are the status is the reason for discrimination and racism.

Blog post#5. About interview.

In the interview with Richard Lieberman and daisy kinard, Lieberman try to find out why the interviewee move from south. the main reason is education and job. they faced more discrimination there. There are two school bus for white students. The black students had to walk 2 mile for school. They faced discrimination in the job market. The had to work on either tobacco factories or domestic.Here we see the historical context about racial discrimination.
The other interview with James Cerofeci, liberman tried to find out the beginning of the fight for establishing union. when the worker discriminated or they were cutting their wages they fought together against these discrimination's.
Both interviews are related to our class texts one is "a more perfect union" by Barack Obama ,another is "up against wall mart". we discussed a lot about racism and low wages in our class. The interview prove that those text has historical evidence and witness.