Being Judged In High School

Growing up in a community that was mostly black people and Hispanics and really didn’t leave much so I didn’t know that different races were being judged. When I got to high school I learned that not everything was good and that there were some clashes with races and ethnicities. I thought that all Hispanics were all Mexican, and it was not the case and Mexicans would be disrespectful to people of El Salvador or from other countries where Hispanics come from. It was a difficult to see that people that had the same skin tone judged each other, I felt that we had a connection with them that most of us spoke Spanish and to see that there was a division was devastating. I learned that people that weren’t Mexicans but were Hispanic looked the same but maybe talked …show more content…
I was ashamed of what I saw in my own community and thought that it was not right and that it had to change. This experience made me see that no matter where you go there will be prejudiced and judgment because of where you are from. I thought because my high school had minoritized people they would understand each other more and that there would be this understanding of different backgrounds and identities, but what I learned was that we all have to learn from somewhere and sometimes we aren’t taught that we should accept differences that that is what makes you strong and become more open. I work with talking to the people the used language that was not okay to tell other people and became more mindful of what I say, when though I have much to learn and have made mistakes of saying things that can be offensive to other races and cultures. Something that I would do differently in this type of situation would be to talk to my classmates and educated them a little about people that do not look like you, that we are all different but that is actually a good