HW 34- The Cool Pose

Is there a path to coolness? Are these paths pre picked to give us all the same results and turn us into characters preforming for other people?

Well from reading the three links that andy gave us i started off with the "Poverty of The Mind" article about the young black youths, and how they all seam to be connected in the way that they all go down the same paths in life. what i noticed when reading this article was that these paths that the young black youth follow are almost like a right of passage. It seams that they "Bahave so self destructivly" as the article said might be because they feel they dont have any other options or other paths to follow. They have been showed the life style of a typical young black youth and they find that to be "cool" because everyone goes down the same path and if you dont then youra loser or your trying to be someone your not which i dont find true. The atricle found that the young black young that graduated high school and went to college were precived as "acting white" becuase thats the path white people follow.

From what we have been learning in class the idea seams tobe that your level of cool has to do with the level of your social status. you typically find more black and hispanic people in the lower class range. It makes it harder for people catigorized in the lower class to be looked at like a normal person as respected becuase people assum your social class represents you as a person when it doesnt.

And this is where we see the "cultural pattern" That things cannot be changed and its sad because it just becomes a never ending situation. we probably will never be able to be as authentic as we want to be.