Personal Narrative: Race, Ethnicity, And Social Class

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Society The privileges that I have and I don’t give much thought to are: have freedom of speech, I can say what I want living in America. I can eat when or what I want to eat, nobody can tell me what to eat or not except my parents but I still eat what I want. The freedom of driving whenever or where ever I desire. I am free do drive to Los Angeles when I feel like it, if I want to drive to Mexico, I have the freedom to do so if I have enough gas. I can apply to a job that I know I qualify to, I know I qualify for all the lower pay jobs because I am legal in the U.S.A. I can take a break time when I want to or when I can, for example, since I’m in school I can choose to take a break when I have a break time from classes. I have the freedom …show more content…
It is related to race because I have the freedom to choose all different kind of race of friendship. I have a diversity group of friends during my lifetime. I have white friends, Asian friends, American friends, Latino friends, African American friends, and Native American friends. Ethnicity is also in my group of friend. According to WikipediaAn ethnic group or ethnicity is a category of people who identify with each other based on common ancestral, social, cultural or national experience. Unlike most other social groups, ethnicity is primarily an inherited status. I was born in Mexico, therefore, my culture is Mexican and when I attended school, my classmates ate the same thing and believed in the same believes. I remember that on Saturdays and Sundays I would go to a Christian reunion where everybody where Chinese so I could understand and learn from them. I also remember that I did go to a Catholic church because it was right next to the apartments where I used to live. My parents are Chinese, which means, I also grew up with Chinese culture. I ate Chinese food because my parents are Chinese and they believe in Buddhism, therefore, I had to believe in Buddhism because my parents made me practice it with them. Now that I’m an adult, all I believe in is to be a good person but I do not belong in any

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