My mom was born in the 1960s, in Seattle Washington. She was one of 5 sisters, and 2 brothers to a father who was in the military off and on and a stay at home mom. She grew up strictly catholic, and even went to a Catholic high school. She …show more content…
Where she was growing up in that time period it wasn’t a very diverse area, or so she tells me, more like a small community where everyone was white and new everyone else. The section on Defining Racism further explains this situation. “Many of us grew up in neighborhoods where we had limited opportunities to interact with people different from our own families,” (65) mostly because of how social segregation plays a role in communities. My mom then went into specifics about different races and why she didn’t like them, placing one or two experiences she’s had into a category enough to classify to herself that the whole race of people acted in such a manner. These stereotypes she made helped to development her prejudice. The textbook defines prejudice as “a preconceived judgment or opinion, usually based on limited information,” (65) and her overall prejudices are so cruel and ignorant I will not be further discussing this issue in this