Journal #2 Competition in America

Competition in America, has crucial importance for our society. Everybody in America believes in the pursuit of happiness and compete to accomplish their dreams. These competitions are healthy to the point where companies or industries begin to negatively affect their employees. I have seen problems coming from low wage cuts or the dismissal of employees, due to their ethnicity. Then, the unfairness of competition ignites and unables the people to pursue their goals. In the beginning, my father struggled to acquire work or had lower wages than normal white workers, considering that he came from Mexico. Ever since the start of immigration in America, immigrants have suffered to compete with regular white workers and this has come from hostility from the whites. The whites would declare that immigrants such as Chinese, Mexican, or European had stolen their jobs, due to applying for jobs for less payment. Some companies took initiative and nativism in accordance to this and excluded immigrants to work or receive even lower payments. The Chinese suffered the most from this when the extreme Chinese Exclusion Act was put into play and denied immigration from China. In my position, I have taken in competition as my determination in entering a college or university. It has gotten harder to enter a college or university contrasting many years before, but the competition has gotten stronger and you have to establish your position firmly in order to enter one.