For my hashtag topic, I chose ethnicity. I found many tweets about ethnicity. The tone of my first example is used in the correct way. It talks about how people pretend to know how others talk by using race and ethnicity and they do not know the difference. Race may defined as the color of ones skin and what other people see you as. Ethnicity could be classified by a persons cultural background, heritage, and history of  their ancestry .

The tone of my second example is supposed to be a funny tweet and is about how people don’t know what ethnicity people are during the summer. They use their skin tone to classify ethnicity, which is not necessarily right.

From these usages of this hashtag on twitter I see that many people take this seriously, but a few joke around about it. Some people in society are ignorant to the true meanings of both the words race and ethnicity.

#Education I looked on the internet and found a tweet that talked stated get your child in the right private high school.

#Education I discovered another tweet and it stated that a five digit code should not determine the public school your child can attend.

In summary, private and public schools use money by the children attending. 

A 5 code should not determine the public school your attends. This is an important factor because public school education is justified by taxes being fulfilled if you live in a specific zip code. If a child has a chance to attend an elite public school but distance is the option he should be able to participate. As private school their is no barriers because a person can attend private school no matter if they live in a different state it just matters on them arriving and not being late. Our government controls and prohibit children from getting a quality education by justifying that a kid can not attend a school because of America’s 5 digit code. The only reason the 5 digit code is relevant because of taxes. #Money

          For my hashtag topic, I chose #culture. I found that there is a wide ranging usage for just this word. Some people use this word to form pages and form online communities in which others can relate to a specific culture. Others use it to raise awareness of certain negative customs in a culture, such as diminishing the role and education of women. Furthermore, some people use this word to mock a culture, stereotype a culture, or exaggerate specific characteristics of a culture. Thus, there are both negative and positive uses of #culture.

          One of the users of Twitter has used #culture to declare a stereotypical point of view of Asian languages, stating that these points of views are funny. The tone of my first example is mocking and very close minded.

          Another Tweeter used #culture in a positive manner. He was advocating for peace, unity, and for the creations of connections within worldwide cultures to create a better future. The tone of my second example is very positive, enlightening, and peaceful.

          Looking at these different usages, I think that there are wide ranging points of views in this world. The level of maturity of the users on these social media cites is wide ranging. Thus, their level of sensitivity towards the wide ranging topics in this world can really vary. Some users take social, economic and political issues far more seriously than other users. In addition, some users show more respect to the diversity in this world than other users.

          In general, these contradictory hashtags say a lot about society. The different stances each individual can be reflected through their responses and through their usage of #culture. On everyday social media, these wide ranging and contradictory viewpoints can be seen.

For my hashtag topic, I first chose natives but then I changed it to human rights. I found one tweet that went with the hashtag of my chose and another one I don’t understand how it relates to it.

The first tweet is pretty serious and talks about an actual human rights problem. The second tweet has something to do with the world cup and unless I am not understanding something, I don’t see how this relates to human rights.

As I have already said, the first tweet actually talks about a serious topic and a violation of human rights. The second tweet isn’t really relating to an human rights problem, but then again, I don’t know much about soccer.

#black , being black is hard , u dream of chicken wen ur hungry, u spell stuff incorrectly, u have an irrational fear of cops, u love watermelon and grape koo-laid, and society has already branded you as a young man of color, with no future. Despite all that, black is indeed beautiful, black looks good on a baby boy, regardless of his skin color, and black looks good as a dress. However, black is more than just a dress or diapers on a baby, black is a race, its a generation, its a history, its a legacy. A legacy of men and women who toiled in the fields of slavery, which was sweltering with the heat of injustice, who were liberated from the bondage known as ‘slavery’, only to be brought back to it under a new name, segregation, ” separate but equal ”, ” Jim Crow ”, they fought for us, some of us take that for granted, but……….. some of us ….. respect their bravery, admire their courage, and idolize what they stood for , some of us ….. honor them. #BLACK

For my hashtag, I chose to research #discrimination. I found that people mostly use the hashtag legitimately, with several congressman and organizations using it. Most tweets about this involved foreign issues and gay rights.

The tone of my first example serious. It is two people, berating Ashers Baking Co., a Northern Irish bakery that refused to make a cake for a gay couple. I think that this social media allows people to spread word about a discriminatory practice, without confrontation. Through Twitter, word of this business’ anti-gay practices can go public instantly. If this company does have discriminatory practices, they should at least have the courtesy to notify people.

The second example is more joke-ish. A teenager is making a joke about the lack of fishabetes. This use of the hashtag shows how humor these days is. It isn’t just clean, every-man jokes, they are a little bit more tailored.

Looking at how people use this hashtag, I think that the legitimacy of the hashtag is mostly upheld as something serious, while a few use it as jokes, even a few of my friends. Hashtags may seem very serious when about serious topics, but it all depends on the context. This says that in society, not everyone thinks or feels the same about a topic. When looking at a tweet, or using a hashtag, a person could think that “this is a good thing, this is constructive” or “this will make people laugh.” That says something about society as a whole, that not everyone thinks the same about an issue.

I couldn’t choose just two tweets for #bias. I find it kinda difficult to determine which tweet was serious and which wasn’t, mainly because I don’t really know most of the references mentioned on their twitter account. One twitter account @WLIA speaks about women needing to gain confidence and strive to fight to take positions that most men often obtain. While the other two @dead speaks about how someone didn’t deserve to win a reality show because she doesn’t have enough talent. I feel this isn’t a proper way to use #bias because you could easily say that the person she wanted to win didn’t deserve to last this long in the running. The other tweet mocks someone randomly gaining weight. I thought it wasn’t the right way to #bias because instead of using it for something actually related to biasness, it makes fun of someone. I could, however, be very wrong because I don’t really know who these people are and what their point is they’re trying to get across.  I think these contradictory hashtags show that our generation doesn’t know the hardships that people who actually have endured biasness, and because of that we take light of it too much.