McDonald Workers ; Midterm Blog 3

  Personally, I don't eat often at McDonald's often, or would I advise anyone else too, but on the rare occasion when I do eat out at McDonald's, the only meal I get is chicken nuggets and french fries. Every time I go to McDonald's and it's never the same location in a row, I always notice three things about it; 1) There are always Spanish and Black people working there. 2) The supervisor or head manager is White in most occasions and 3) The fries get more and more salty. Cultural space in a physical place relates to the employees ethnicity's that work at McDonald's. Spanish and Black people get along well together and are comfortable in their cultural space, while they often work at the same areas being the physical place.
   The Founders of McDonald's were Richard and Maurice McDonald and Ray Kroc who was the corporation founder, they are all white. Meanwhile, the President and Chief Executive Office of McDonald's is Don Thompson a black man. That does contradict with the stereotype but there's always exceptions right? Anyways, if you were to ask any random person who do they mostly see working at McDonald's what do you think they'll say? I asked my mom and she said Spanish people. I asked my boyfriend and he said Spanish or Black. I asked my brother and he said desperate people. Hahaha! Well.. SO WHAT? What does that have to do with anything???
  Would you ever work at McDonald's? For me that would be a no. Now what if I rephrased the question, would you work at McDonald's if you were Spanish or Black, couldn't get a higher class job, had a family to feed and needed to the money? For me now I would say yes! Naturally the stereotype is that Spanish and Black people often don't have the degree or qualifications to end up in a high corporate job and need money now to feed their children and pay their bills. Therefore, they always ends up at a low class job, such as McDonald's. The McDonald's on Westport Ave in Norwalk has Spanish and Black people working there as I observed and they are between 25 and 38. The McDonald's on Connecticut Ave in Norwalk has Spanish and Black people working there also, but they do also have 2 White employees. All of their employees are between the age of 18 and 35. The McDonald's on Main Ave in Norwalk has Spanish and Black people working there with a couple of White people also, their ages vary between 18 and 46. As I have observed the stereotype is quite correct, most people that work at lower class jobs are Spanish and Black but that's also because Spanish and Black people do represent the lower class.
   The stereotype and the cultural space in a psychical place was defined. You never really notice things until you have too. Black and Spanish most likely will always work under the White man. I don't want that to sound racist or come out the wrong way but its a common realization. Realize the place of work, the type of work and who is there working.