Demystifying a Myth, The Color of Family Ties
Forum Shah
Professor Huston
English 1120: Exposition and Argumentation
September 13, 2014
Demystifying a Myth, The Color of Family Ties
A white picket wall, brilliant retriever, newly cut yard, companion, and two children now are the meaning of the quintessential American family today. Be that as it may, this old fashioned rendition of The American Dream is infrequently accomplished. Even the cutting edge endeavours to accomplish uniformity crosswise over ethnic lines as sociologists Naomi Gerstel and Natalia Sarkisian expounded on in their article "The Color of Family Ties" that was distributed in American Families: A Multicultural Reader in 2008. Gerstel and Sarkisian are both award winning sociology professors at the University of Massachusetts and Boston College respectively. In this article, they take the misconceptions into consideration and refute it with their professional opinions backed up with statistics and intensive research.
In this article, Gerstel and Sarkisian endeavor to look at the frequently neglected connection ties and the family contribution of Whites, Blacks and Latinos/as and the misinterpretation that hangs over them. This misinterpretation is managed by prevalent thinking and expresses that minority families have weaker associations with their broadened family. To battle this myth, Gerstel and Sarkisian have led a study that proves otherwise. Through this examination, it can question the claim whether these families are more "disrupted" than white families. There are racial contrasts, however, as white ladies are more inclined to give and get passionate help, while minority ladies are more prone to help their broadened family parts with more reasonable work like the family obligations and raising kids. It is because, in numerous minority families, the mother has to have a full-time employment to back the family, so she depends on the relatives to help with a large number of the normal intricacies.
Gerstel and Sarkisian start their
Professor Huston
English 1120: Exposition and Argumentation
September 13, 2014
Demystifying a Myth, The Color of Family Ties
A white picket wall, brilliant retriever, newly cut yard, companion, and two children now are the meaning of the quintessential American family today. Be that as it may, this old fashioned rendition of The American Dream is infrequently accomplished. Even the cutting edge endeavours to accomplish uniformity crosswise over ethnic lines as sociologists Naomi Gerstel and Natalia Sarkisian expounded on in their article "The Color of Family Ties" that was distributed in American Families: A Multicultural Reader in 2008. Gerstel and Sarkisian are both award winning sociology professors at the University of Massachusetts and Boston College respectively. In this article, they take the misconceptions into consideration and refute it with their professional opinions backed up with statistics and intensive research.
In this article, Gerstel and Sarkisian endeavor to look at the frequently neglected connection ties and the family contribution of Whites, Blacks and Latinos/as and the misinterpretation that hangs over them. This misinterpretation is managed by prevalent thinking and expresses that minority families have weaker associations with their broadened family. To battle this myth, Gerstel and Sarkisian have led a study that proves otherwise. Through this examination, it can question the claim whether these families are more "disrupted" than white families. There are racial contrasts, however, as white ladies are more inclined to give and get passionate help, while minority ladies are more prone to help their broadened family parts with more reasonable work like the family obligations and raising kids. It is because, in numerous minority families, the mother has to have a full-time employment to back the family, so she depends on the relatives to help with a large number of the normal intricacies.
Gerstel and Sarkisian start their