Single Stories Today

I believe that most of the single stories that have been in To Kill a Mockingbird, still exist today, just not on as high of a scale. Especially for women and African Americans, society has become a lot more accepting and see them as equal. For example, when Jem is saying that Scout acts like a girl, in which he says it several times, he meant that girls are lesser. Today, though, I believe that it is used much less often. In addition, the phrase was made common when society viewed women as lesser people, and it is difficult to get rid of an old phrase. Today, people are just accustomed to using the phrase as a way to say you are bad at something, but are not trying to insult girls by saying it. In racism, that was also a common practice back then the no longer exist for a majority of people, with a few left who still do it. In most groups that were discriminated against, now it usually comes up in jokes. In the article Canadian youth must be properly educated on how racism persists in Canada, the author says that "Being racist is something you laugh about in the bar or at the gas station, like mocking the Oilers. At the very least, most people know that racial slurs are wrong, but it makes little sense why racism would be a major theme in a university course." A lot of people know just assume that racism isn't a big deal anymore and just joke about it. However, this can be taken the wrong way, or the people can get used to the jokes and eventually decide that being racist is ok, which could lead to resurgence of racism as a whole. Younger children can also overhear this and think this is ok. So while discrimination is not as big of a deal now, how we act about it now could affect how we view it in the future. #no racist jokes