Differences Between Men With Different Race And Cultures...

For this assignment, I interview two different males with different race and cultures. The first male is my husband, he is a white Caucasian male, who comes from a lower class family. He began by telling me that class has played a major role in his life, from living in poverty as a young child, to not being able to afford school after high school. Which led him to join the military after graduating. After the military, he didn’t have enough money to go back to school and started to look for any job that could help him better his living situation. Even though the military helped him pay for some of his college he wasn’t able to get into a four-year college and had to settle for getting an education in a community college. His will to work hard and succeed seem impossible, until he started networking with various people who would come into his job. That’s where he discovered he could apply for a job similar to the training he had in the military, which was Aviation Electrician. 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