What is the White Mainstream?

To me to identify certain cultural norms and values is basically to be raised up by a middle class family. When you are raised as a middle class citizen you then get to see the ups and downs of life and are able to adjust to daily situations like that. If you have lived upper class all your life and never really felt the downs of life, or the feelings of being broke and etc, many can't adjust to living a certain way for awhile and being able to bounce back. The world is basically a white world, the white man I feel is the people that have set the standards for the way life is today, what shouldn't and should be done is really the standards they have set for everyone else. Me as being black I feel I am just living in their world and just have to play the game to get to the top and get where I want to be. Values stop being white when you either over come certain norms or either under achieve them, and they stop being middle class and or western when you start to do things outside of the box, and making your own choices and going out on a limb to succeed.

Tell Me More

I hope to learn many things from this class. From the history of my culture, the people that have made big effects on it, and what the future may hold. I don't feel it will apply to my major but I do feel it will apply to my life. I will more appreciate the way the world is today and the freedom that I have. I will respect those that helped my culture get to where it is today, and won't be dumbfounded to things that I should know about my culture.

Introductions, For Real, Y'all

My major is communications. I was born in Chicago, Illinois and now live on the outer skirts of the city in a suburb called Matteson. I am currently a senior at UIS but will need a extra semester to graduate. I am an athlete for this school and play for the men's basketball team here. My future goals is to be a successful athlete playing basketball overseas for a little while to make money. Then I will use that money to make more by investing and my communication skills will help me with the people I will be meeting from all over, and getting along with them at businesses I will own. My plan is to live wealthy and not have to worry about living check to check, and I want to be able to give my kids the things that I've never had. Also, I would like to be able to take care of my grandmother, mom, and other family members if they need it. I want to make them proud!!!