Warburton Essay #3 October 22‚ 2012 David Brooks’ “People Like Us” Analysis Many individuals interpret diversity differently specifically in the United States because of its melting pot of distinct cultures and lifestyles. In his essay “People Like Us”‚ David Brooks’ argues that although the United States is a diverse nation as a whole‚ it is homogeneous in specific aspects like interactions between people. To some extent‚ his observation is true; people tend to stick to what or who they are
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People Like Us When first reading the piece by David Brooks I was shocked about the bold statement that he made. Growing up I always believed I surrounded myself with others that were not all the same as me‚ however the more I look into my actually life and each piece there is a fair amount of truth behind his “admission”. I can look at different aspects of my everyday life‚ and see how I actually am not surrounded by a diverse group of people. I live in a mainly white Republican neighborhood‚ upper-middle
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People Like Us In People Like Us‚ David Brooks suggests that maybe America isn¡¯t as diverse as we all say it is. That maybe no one really cares about diversity as much as they claim to. And‚ he may be right. Have you ever been to a school cafeteria? People group together into different racial and social groups. It¡¯s more comfortable to be around people similar to us‚ and comfort is what America is all about. It¡¯s human nature to want to be around people similar to us. Some wise
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claims that the poor are invisible to us and the media contributes to this. What do you think of that claim in light of the Mantsios article‚ Ehrenreich article‚ and the People Like Us video we watched in class? The poor is invisible to us just as the Mantsios article states. It is invisible in the sense that many people frame the poor as urban black or Hispanic people that have their own culture that need not to be interfered with. On the other hand what people fail to acknowledge as the Mantsios
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Jesse Salisbury English/Comp 1 Connie Peters September 2‚ 2014 Surgery Experience I woke up in my bed sweating cause of an awful dream I had about my upcoming surgery on my knee‚ I was terrified because in the dream I had they messed up and cut the wrong muscle and told me I might not be able to play football anymore and there wasn’t anything they could do about it! I didn’t know what to do so I told my mom to cancel the surgery and I’ll just play through the pain and promised not to complain
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Part 1: Summary of "People Like Us" by David Brooks People like us is an article about America’s diversity‚ well actually it’s about the lack of diversity within our diverse culture. Mr. Brooks proclaims that America boasts for being an extremely diverse society; but he shows many examples of how America is still segregated by choice‚ by habits and other measurable categories. Mr. Brooks proclaims that people of the same race and income level tend to flock together and live in the same communities
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In David Brooks’ article‚ “The cost of Relativism‚” and Nicholas Confessore’s article‚ “Tramps like Them” gives a detailed description of generations that are caught in a recurring loop of stress and family breakdown. This has created eroding of citizens American virtues. In both articles they talk about books that explains breakdowns of generations. One of the books are called “Our Kids” by Robert Putnam which illustrates the differences between college graduate parents and high school graduate
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to “People Like Us” In the essay “People Like Us”‚ Brooks states that maybe we are indeed a diverse nation when considered as a whole‚ but when you look at us on the community level‚ we are homogenous. Brooks describes numerous ways in which Americans separate themselves from one another. Overall‚ I agree with the points made by Brooks and can draw many similarities to my own life. For example‚ when Brooks describes how our towns or cities can become racially homogenized. “People Like Us” begins
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People like Us On the essay “People like us” David Brook’s main purpose is to discuss the increasing diversity in America. This essay is a master piece of intelligence and organized ideas. A reader can grab that in his first sentence. “We all pay lip service to the melting pot‚ but we really prefer the congealing pot.” The writer uses relative concept with very effective language. He uses strong diction‚ logical tone and complex syntax. The writer’s choice of words is very effective and persuasive
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The New York Times article‚ “Harmony and the Dream‚” David Brooks provides the argument that the world social classes are divided into individualists and collectivists. He goes further to give the idea that that the division is misconstrued result of economic turmoil or just world perception. Brooks shares facts about several social experiments with the contrary ideologies and social responses between Americans and Asians. He continues by linking the lack of human interaction‚ with the downfall and
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