The Other World: Racism In America

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The Other World Have you ever heard of someone saying you’re not from my world? As if there was another world out there that I haven’t seen. I wanted to know what it was; did they find people on Mars? Maybe it was Venus, where ever it was, I was curious to know where this other world was. What did it look like was there farms and animals or different people like there are here on earth? Did everybody believe the same thing or did people see things differently? I wanted to know what these people were talking about so I asked around to different people and everyone had their own point of views on what the other world was like and now it’s my turn to tell you how I see the other world. I was raised in the county and didn’t see other people …show more content…

People acted as if I should be ashamed for dating a man of color. It wasn’t just the white people that would have their opinions and the stares we got it from both cultures. Everybody has their own views of what racism is. My thoughts and belief of what racism is, is a discrimination and stereotype of a person’s nationality, religion and or culture. Everyone I believe has some racism in them in some kind of way, from people thinking that all Mexican people speak Spanish, to every African American person likes fried chicken, or all white people look the same. It’s not ok to hurt people’s feelings or to stereotype one culture or the other but yet we all do it.
No one really know what everybody has been through, though people stereotype and generalize a whole culture to be as one. Even though people see Michael Jordan or Tyler Perry and Denzel Washington to name a few that are successful black men but yet they stereotype the black male culture to be gangsters or hoodlums. Why is this? Why can’t people see the good in a culture instead of the bad? Another example would be Jennifer Lopez or Mario Lopez are successful Mexican people and yet the whole culture is stereotyped as illegal immigrants. Now they’re a few of us out here that aren’t the typical society, we do believe everyone is an

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