In this century, the American ideas of equality and freedom should be the main standard for everyone to live with others in the social. However, these ideas did not seem to fully apply to all people for several reasons.
Firstly, discrimination is instilled in people’s mind and it is hard to be erased. Although people try their best to avoid discriminating, the sense of racism is still existed. It is reflected through their behaviors. For example, many people would distance themselves from the ethnic groups of people in their community. The white people would generally avoid socializing with the black. In addition, if you investigate the news published online, you would see that these ethnic groups of people are always portrayed negatively. They would become the first suspects if a bad circumstance occurs. So, it is not true that every people in the U.S. are truly equal.
Secondly, apart from the issue of the ethnic people in the U.S mentioned in the first paragraph, another obvious reason to show how the U.S. society does not have a so-called “equality” can be reflected through the fact that the male and the female citizen still do not have the equal rights in their jobs. If you examine the job advertisements in the newspapers, you would notice that some of the jobs require only males. Women are still not allowed to do some kinds of jobs. This suggests that the equality between male and female, in fact, does not truly exist.
To sum up, the ideas of equality and freedom promoted in the U.S might not be able to apply for all people because some groups of people who are still perceived as inferior by the local people. In addition, the example of the opportunity in applying for job between males and females can be used as evidence to back up the claim that equality might not really exist in the U.S society.