I first became aware of my gender around 3 or 4 years old. My mom used to make me wear girly clothes and she would put hair ties and ribbons in my hair to match my outfit. Although she would not do the same to my brother. Growing up in a religious household, I found out that my gender defined certain expectations upon me and my behavior. I wasn’t allowed to wear baggy clothes or walk around the house without a shirt on. That was the first time I understood the aspects of being a female. It is only now that I reject the ideology of how society wants me to live up to other people’s expectations and begin to explore what being a woman means to me. The gender roles into which society chooses is flawed because not everyone fits into the ideal mold.
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I have been exposed to different skin colors in elementary school. During recess, students would separate themselves in a clique and play games among those who are the same race. I got along well with others of different races when I was a kid. I never thought anything of it because I was oblivious to the world as a child. Honestly being African American doesn’t mean much to me, not just African American, any race. I don’t care about race, as opposed to the individual. I am aware of historical events that has happened in the past and what is going on today in society. However my race or any other race for that matter doesn’t mean much to me. I would say I have not experience privilege in my race because of our skin tones. Past event such as the stigmas surrounding it are embedded in American infrastructures and how we are treated by the police- an act that goes frequently unreported by the …show more content…
Note that all of them were Vietnamese. On our way to the club, one of my friends in the car told the rest of us that other people we know are already there. I’m thinking great, the more the merrier. Fast forward, an incident occurred with me and a girl I went to high school with. Were all dancing and having a good time then the song that was playing then changed to a song I didn’t know. Luan, one of my guy friends came up to me and started mouthing the words to the song. I shouted over the music and said “I don’t know this song”! Before he could say anything back, Wendy, one of the girls who I went to high school with, was standing close by and said, “Aren’t you black?” I was taken back by her remarks and I just stared at her with an appalled, possibly stupid look on my face. I had to stop myself from saying something that would have cause a commotion. Instead of insulting her, I simply just said to her, “Just because I am black, does not mean I know every black artist or their song. Two wrongs doesn’t make a right. She really pissed me off and ruined the rest of my night. I moved myself away from her for the rest of the night. This situation is consider to be racial common sense because she assumed that every black person should know every black artist in the industry which is not the
I have been exposed to different skin colors in elementary school. During recess, students would separate themselves in a clique and play games among those who are the same race. I got along well with others of different races when I was a kid. I never thought anything of it because I was oblivious to the world as a child. Honestly being African American doesn’t mean much to me, not just African American, any race. I don’t care about race, as opposed to the individual. I am aware of historical events that has happened in the past and what is going on today in society. However my race or any other race for that matter doesn’t mean much to me. I would say I have not experience privilege in my race because of our skin tones. Past event such as the stigmas surrounding it are embedded in American infrastructures and how we are treated by the police- an act that goes frequently unreported by the …show more content…
Note that all of them were Vietnamese. On our way to the club, one of my friends in the car told the rest of us that other people we know are already there. I’m thinking great, the more the merrier. Fast forward, an incident occurred with me and a girl I went to high school with. Were all dancing and having a good time then the song that was playing then changed to a song I didn’t know. Luan, one of my guy friends came up to me and started mouthing the words to the song. I shouted over the music and said “I don’t know this song”! Before he could say anything back, Wendy, one of the girls who I went to high school with, was standing close by and said, “Aren’t you black?” I was taken back by her remarks and I just stared at her with an appalled, possibly stupid look on my face. I had to stop myself from saying something that would have cause a commotion. Instead of insulting her, I simply just said to her, “Just because I am black, does not mean I know every black artist or their song. Two wrongs doesn’t make a right. She really pissed me off and ruined the rest of my night. I moved myself away from her for the rest of the night. This situation is consider to be racial common sense because she assumed that every black person should know every black artist in the industry which is not the