Inauguration Day Assignment

President Obama's Inauguration speach today reassured many Americans that he will take control of our society and that we will get through the recession and war we are going through together as a country. This puts lots of hope into what America will become now that we have a mixed raced president. Directly relating his speach to the American way of life, Obama stated, "We will not apologize for out way of life." Meaning that we Americans should not be ashaimed of what our country stands for and the way we run our country with our economic and government status building up of the way we live our every day lives. Obama says this with the implication that he is proud of the American way of life with no intentions of changing it. Relating to what our previous president, Bush, said, "The American way of life is non-negotiable" stating that the way we live is something he is not willing to change. Both do not seem to want to have any change in the way Americans live but has been verbalized differently. Obama saying it like the way we live is something we should be proud of and Bush saying it as if our way of life has to stay the same, he is against changing the American way of life. I have come to believe he does not want it changed because it threatens the life he lives now, the American way of life as I have noticed is more beneficial (cui bono) for those in the upper class such as himself and now, Obama, and he does not want to lose that because he is living above the working class who is trying to sustain ourselves.

As many Americans have noticed, Obama is essentially living the typical American dream, coming from being not financially stable as one of the marginalized citizens of America and now becoming the President of the United States. This gives hope to those who do live as a marginalized citizen of America, and it also gives them dignity and it empowers them to demand respect in society as Obama compares the way he is respected now to how he was treated in the past.

The dominant frameworks of the American way of life remain after Obama's inauguration, which means that the American way of life will mostly stay the same, the gap between the rich and the poor will continue to grow apart or remain to have a dramatic gap, and the government system still has the same articles and amendments preventing from America making progress in society and passing down the values of power to upcoming generations. The only difference I can imagine is that Americans will live more patriotically because most Americans are now actually proud of who is running the country, and the way people of other races or religions are treated might change for the better because America continuing to accept diversity in that now we have a president who is of mixed race.