Limits of the American Dream and Racism behind the Facade...

Limits of the American Dream and Racism behind the Faà §ade of Color-Blind America While the United States is a great country in terms of being home to so many nationalities, races, cultures, and religions, its greatness is often exaggerated through the perpetuation of myths and false assumptions. One of the myths that those who pursue the American Dream often believe is the idea that the United States is a color-blind society where anyone can achieve the dream regardless of ones race, color, gender, religion, or sexual orientation. It is true that hard work and persistence to the dream will eventually pay off, but what is missing from the general understanding of the American Dream is that the idea of color-blindness is just a faà §ade behind which one can see the ugly face of racism. This becomes clear to many ethnic Americans a long list of hyphenated Americans such as Asian-Americans, Afro-Americans, Mexican-Americans, Indian-Americans, Arab-Americans, and put any nationality here-Americans who, as they grow up in America, find out about the pervasive racism t hat is hidden behind the faà §ade of color-blindness. As the stories of Jeremiah Torres and Matthew Noerper demonstrate in Label Us Angry and A Little Too Asian and Not Enough White, in America there is an illusion of color-blindness, while the ugly face of racism may resurface at any moment. Jeremiah Torres was an ordinary Filipino American who grew up in America, believing that the society he was growing upShow MoreRelatedManagement Course: Mba−10 General Management215330 Words   |  862 Pages Third Edition Reed−Lajoux and others . . . This book was printed on recycled paper. Management http://www.mhhe.com/primis/online/ Copyright  ©2005 by The McGraw−Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. Except as permitted under the United States Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without prior written permission of the publisher