Culture Vs White Culture

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One day I was visiting my friend who happened to be white, and as we were walking around his neighborhood I noticed that I was getting weird looks from his surrounding neighbors. Of course, I’m different because I’m a dark skinned Hispanic with a white kid in a white neighborhood. In chapter two it talks about similarity and that people would group together to people that are similar like a white person going to more white people and then we start assuming that culture is all like that one group and that Is what I believe is happening here with the white people moving together and then once they saw a group of Hispanics and saw something bad or had a bad experience with them and they were pushing their generalizations towards me. I assume

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