Eleanor Oakman: Chapter 5, Question 5.

Many people often recognize racial profiling, but what about economic profiling? When Wheelan brought that up in the end of the chapter using his personal experience, it cought me by surprise that the woman was actually right about her assumptions with him going to the bulls game. It would make sense if he was wearing a bulls shirt, it would be fairly easy to figure that he was going to a bulls game, but Wheelan specifically said he was wearing a suit. That is what I found sad but interesting. The woman profiled him by what he seemed like economically, and she was right! That made me think that do people actually get it right more often then wrong when profiling by economic status instead of by race, maybe so. Though there are people in the world who try to act a certain economic class when they really aren't. For example, there is this lady I know who is very materialistic, but doesn't have the money for it. I knew her well enough to know that she would act like she spent all this money on something but actually bought it on amazon. If someone glanced at her they wouldn't be correct about her economic status. This is what I find so interesting, on the news and in articles everyone is talking about how racial profiling has ruined us, and yes of course it's a major topic, but no one really has ever brought up profiling on what they are wearing or how they act, or even by their economic profiling, it's funny how that happens everyday but no one ever brings it up.