A couple little children stopped to stare at our big van as we made our way up the dry, dusty road to a gypsy pastor’s home in Romania. Our family was on a mission trip for a couple weeks, and one of the biggest outreaches for the resident missionaries was building and starting greenhouses for needy families. This was no exception. Ramshackle houses with gaping holes lined the streets, and a little crowd of gypsies gathered to see what we were doing in their village. Before we left, we learned that gypsies are considered to be the disgrace of Romania, an utterly unredeemable portion of their culture. If you ever hear gypsies referenced in a Romanian home, they are probably the brunt of a joke. This expirience was the first time I encountered
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The most blatant and painful example is slavery. The idea that one race is superior to another just because of cultural and skin-tone differences is abhorrent. Although we as a nation have made much progress since the time when men could be considered property and were sold in market squares like animals, more change needs to happen. We need to stop making immediate assumptions about people based on their appearance, and instead judge them by their character. God is the ultimate example of this. The Bible tells us that, “The LORD does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.”- 1 Samuel 16:7. If we as Americans can learn to judge people for who they really are, and not their outward appearance, racism will no longer be such a big issue for our …show more content…
My aunt and uncle have three lovely kids they adopted from Guatemala. I don’t look at them as Guatemalan, though of course their features are different from the rest of the family. My relationship with them is based solely on who the are. My dad is of Middle-Eastern descent, and many people would consider my parents racially mixed. Our church is diverse, filled with mixed racial marriages, but the honest truth is that I had to stop and think about that fact, because it’s not something I normally notice. Skin color becomes an unnecessary detail when you get to know the person, because you no longer identify them by their nationality or appearance, but by their
The most blatant and painful example is slavery. The idea that one race is superior to another just because of cultural and skin-tone differences is abhorrent. Although we as a nation have made much progress since the time when men could be considered property and were sold in market squares like animals, more change needs to happen. We need to stop making immediate assumptions about people based on their appearance, and instead judge them by their character. God is the ultimate example of this. The Bible tells us that, “The LORD does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.”- 1 Samuel 16:7. If we as Americans can learn to judge people for who they really are, and not their outward appearance, racism will no longer be such a big issue for our …show more content…
My aunt and uncle have three lovely kids they adopted from Guatemala. I don’t look at them as Guatemalan, though of course their features are different from the rest of the family. My relationship with them is based solely on who the are. My dad is of Middle-Eastern descent, and many people would consider my parents racially mixed. Our church is diverse, filled with mixed racial marriages, but the honest truth is that I had to stop and think about that fact, because it’s not something I normally notice. Skin color becomes an unnecessary detail when you get to know the person, because you no longer identify them by their nationality or appearance, but by their