When considering the factors affecting a child’s socialization, bias and stereotyping are factors that mostly are overlooked but still exist. I come from a minority cultural and ethnic group in the multicultural America. I am a South Asian Muslim and personally, I feel my children are always trying to “fit-in” among their friends at school. For example, my younger child never knew that he is “brown” until he was called brown by kids in kindergarten at school. Before he started pre-school, he was never exposed to racism or differences in skin color and he was more socially active whenever we went out. Just because now he knows that he comes from a different ethnic background, culture and religion he believes he is more welcomed by children who
