autobiography

Rank	Relationship to Rank
Age	Agent
Disability	Agent
Race	Agent
Religious Culture	Agent
Ethnicity	Target
Social Class Culture	Target
Sexual Orientation	Agent
Indigenous Heritage	Agent
National Origin	Target
Gender	Target

 

The above rank categories impact my daily life in different ways. For instance, my rank for national origin is a target since I am Asian. According to the text, the individuals born in the United States get assigned Agent group while those born anywhere else get Assigned Target membership (Nieto,65). The aspect affects my daily life as a foreigner because of various bureaucratic issues that present a possibility of me getting deported without warning or get detained without due process. It makes an individual live in the nation with uncertainty. Also, there is significant oppression linked to a national origin that restricts access to legislation and legitimization, and this has a great influence on my daily life. From the text, “undocumented immigrants may be incarcerated or deported without due process, they may be unable to access medical care or attend school. The national origin target’s access to basic rights as workers or human beings is constrained” (Nieto, 65). From the quote, one can examine the type of struggle, and the influence that targets as a rank in national origin has on me.

The second social rank is social class culture. In this rank, I belong to Target group because I lack access and influence to the social institutions as well as not having the capacity to own property in the nation. Also, I also have difficulty in getting access to legal representation or adequate health care. Under certain circumstances, the grievances of the people in my rank can be ignored when having a problem with an institution and this is a significant problem because I may get poor healthcare services. Also, the classes in the United States get linked to capitalism, social resources and privatization, and the free market policies all that I may not enjoy and can only be available to the working population. The text illustrates that “social class Targets enroll in college classes may be faced with an added stress of unfamiliar environment (Nieto 53).” This is another challenge I encounter in this group. As much as I may register in the colleges, I still have to deal with the problem of adapting to the environment.