Understanding Sexual Orientation

Throughout life, growing up you can question your sexuality. However, through todays society, being a heterosexual is more acceptable so if your a homosexual, you'll sometimes try to cover it up and act as though your a heterosexual.

In the reading, to me it seemed as though it was showing how homosexuals are categorized. If your actually a straight guy and you decide to become bald, interested in music or art, nursing and etc, you would be mistaken for a homosexual. This was interesting and shocking to me at the same time. It shows you how stereotypical society can be.

Thursday while I was sick, I was watching Americas Next Top model and found myself applying everything I learned from class, to the show. It was pretty interesting to me because I realized I was applying my social imagination, without purposely trying to.

Two of the models were arguing and one of the girls called the opposite girl uneducated due to the way she talked. However, the girl said she went to a top school, I can't recall which school it was, and said she completed college.

This was another example in life that showed me how people are categorized. Just because the girl didn't talk proper, the way high educated people "should" talk, she was presumed to be uneducated. This shows you can't judge a book by its cover.

How Did Jews Become White Folks?

I picked this article because I've assumed Jews were already considered ' white Folks '. However, after reading this article it totally changed my assumption. It made me realize Jews always had it hard not only during the time of the holocaust, but when they migrated to New York. They weren't treated properly and was kept away from equal jobs. They went to top schools and were very educated. I assumed all Jews had money with the big houses, just like the whites have. Unfortunately the whites separated themselves from the Jews. They