They will all be competing for the same jobs and, being a capitalist society, our country thrives on having the personnel to do the "blue-collar- jobs. It's a sad, but true statement to make. We need the people who are, not necessarily less educated, but the people that will be happy to work at, say, a McDonald's or a Wal-Mart because they're getting a paycheck and happy to have a job at all. I will now draw upon Michael Apple as a critical theorist and Lisa Delpit, a "multiculturalist,"" to help support my stance.
In Apple's book Cultural Politics and Education, the main argument that he makes is that because of the capitalist society in which Americans live today, people who start off with lower economic and social backgrounds are less likely to become, say, an executive CEO of a Fortune 500 company. He doesn't blame education per se, but rather blames the excuses that people make to cover up the hidden truth; that truth being that we as Americans don't fully grasp the concepts that our economic society is based on (those concepts being the different classes, socio-economic standpoints, politics, etc.). Apple also believes in a critical literacy of the economy, meaning Americans should, if they don't know already, educate themselves on our economic system so that they are more aware of what is going on in the world around them. " becoming more critically literate ourselves about the economy, about cultural conflicts, and about the role of the state- (Apple, 104). In Apple's second chapter, he begins by stating that Americans aren't learning as much as they should, or don't know enough of what they should know, and yet continue to criticize those who they feel are more intellectually inferior to them. We, as Americans, learn the basics, and only few venture off to explore other aspects and learn more than just that World War II occurred between 1939 and 1945. The examples Apple gives are that social studies texts still refer to the period known as "The Dark Ages- rather than, what he believes to be:.