Write a paper on Socialization and Proportionality.
About me:
White male, age 18, Birday is May 11, 2003,
Heterosexual, Jewish, never met Birth father and raised by a single mother and grandmother. I’m an only child born and raised in Boca Raton, FL where the majority of classmates were Jewish and it’s an area of big money. I lived in a heavily populated Jewish area. Went to public school until 10th and then mom put me in private school for 11th and 12th. Majority of friends had huge homes and the “perfect” two parent household with fancy cars and massive houses. I grew up in a townhouse but always had designer clothing, nice sneakers, etc. My mother grew up in Virginia Beach where being Jewish was not understood. She was the minority where I feel that growing up in South Florida, it is very much accepted because it is heavily populated with Jews. Although I see the country as a whole becoming more and more anti-semetic (STRESS THIS KEY POINT WITH EXAMPLES). I felt safe in my little bubble. My mother suffered from extreme depression and it was pretty dysfunctional where she spent many years in bed. There weren’t many rules in the house and even though my grandmother didn’t live with us, she lived 15 minutes away, we saw her almost everyday. I played sports….baseball. basketball. Football until I dislocated my knees and had to have surgery on kneecaps. My mother and grandmother went to all my games. My mother is an only child as well. She grew up in a 2 parent household but wasn’t close with her father who passed away when I was a baby. She was also extremely close to her grandparents on her mom’s side. Grandparents were wealthy and my mother was enabled her whole life (even adult life) by her mother and grandparents. She raised me how she was raised. She was and still is a helicopter mom and enables me in a lot of ways. She worked as a jewelry vendor and then in timeshare. My grandmother picked up the slack, emotionally and financially and physically when my mom couldn’t get out of bed from depression.As a child I was given growth hormone shots as the Dr. said I would grow to be approx. 5’3.” My mother didn’t want me bullied for my height. She is very much about appearance as far as getting ahead in life. She likes nice things, expensive things but I suppose we all do. She is just more fortunate and can obtain them. She is very liberal and we clash on viewpoints but I feel as though I have adapted many of my own that differ from hers. We went on cruises and traveled. My grandmother passed away 4 years ago and it was extremely hard on my mother and myself. My mom got very sick and essentially had a breakdown. She had to be placed in a psych ward and rehab for over a month. I stayed with my Uncle in MD. during that time. I felt a lot of loss and abandonment at that time. It was hard to process as I was only 14 years old. There was / is always food on the table,etc. My mom always tells me life is hard and full of disappointments that I need to learn to live with. If I was a brown or black person, I imagine it would be even tougher. I have never been racist as I live for rap music and make my own musical beats. Being away from Boca Raton and now in living in NC has opened my eyes to my privilege. As well as opened my eyes to a large population of gay and transgenger people which I haven’t experienced. It is very much accepted in Asheville but not so much in many rural, uneducated regions.
(THIS IS THE JIST OF IT…..PLEASE READ ATTACHMENTS AS CRITERIA IS SOCIAL MARKERS AND INTERSECTIONALITY)
