Corruption In America

Human beings are social animals, and we survive through our own efforts and other people’s help. Yet we can also see that indifference exists among us. With the increase of our population number, people seem to be not so willing to help others or care others and this is a problem that should attract our attention. Moreover, with the accumulation of social wealth, people are becoming less motivated or corrupted. In the movie Chinatown, and the autobiography of Carlos Bulosan America is in the Heart, we can find how indifference and corruption play important roles in these two works. Obviously, from a common perspective, it is not right to be indifferent or corrupted, but why people are becoming that way? The aim of this paper is to find those
When Carlos stepped into a Filipino poolroom hoping to find his brother, he witnessed a shot to a young Filipino, who died wierdly. Carlos described the reaction of other present Filipinos that “The player stopped for a moment, agitated, then resumed playing, their faces coloring with fear and revolt”(301). We can see how those Filipinos were accustomed to events like this: no shocking, no rebellion, only returning to what they were doing as nothing ever happened. When Carlos stepped into the apartment where his brother lived, he found that there were dozens of Filipinos living in there too, and their lives are corrupted: full of alcohol and
It is true that he has an ‘American dream’ but obviously it is hard for him to realize his dream. Carlos also points out his brother’ s change after arriving in America because he believes that he was like his brother when they were in the Philipines; however, they were not that similar after his brother went to America. Undoubtedly, Carlos is implicating that not only his brother, but also all other American Filipinos, experienced this change. They were all ambitiou and motivated when they just came to this land, like Carlos, but for some reasons they became corrupted and callous