The Disadvantage and the Advantage

I believe that there is a both a disadvantage and advantage when Maxim came on the scene and started placing women on the cover of their magazine. Advantage, women started being wanted more for front covers and it gave more women more jobs and business opportunities in the advertising business. Disadvantage, it made women be shown as skimpy females; that their only good enough if they have a nice looking bodies and we may not have a brain. I applaud yet frown at the industry, but women are smart as always, and they turned it into a dynamic business by selling their bodies but not, and a lot make a killing off of it. I don't know if I would do the same if someone offered, depends on how much money I'm getting out of it, and if it is tasteful enough for me. But like I said, I applaud yet frown on the industry.

Racism is even in the words we say...

From the last time I was in class we were talking about how journalists choose words so as not to offend people. This Danish lady, made a great point about what she saw in America that was different in her country. She said that didn't call anyone white or black because that didn't identify their race; that we're all part of the human race and they simply refer to them based on their nationality or ethnic group. Here we identify people by the color of their skin, and I can honestly say that I've fallen into the American trap myself. I've identified myself as a black girl and try to identify others based on their color; I've been wrong several times by identifying people based on color. It was one girl I remember that looked just like a white girl, but she was actually from Guatemala. I think we as Americans do need to get out of the color scene and base identity on nationality like everyone else or ethnic group. How many people can really say that we are pure breeded africans or caucasions? Everyone is mixed up with more than one ethnic group. Mrs. Lambiase also asked us a question on what is the difference between race and ethnic group. I believe race has to do with how one is categorized by their color of their skin and what one's parents look like, but an ethnic group is like one's place of birth or origin and your bloodline. I believe thats it.