Yes, Cleveland has two high school, however, the city’s population is not big enough for two high schools. East Side is a predominately black school and there is also Cleveland High which was predominately white. When I first decided to go to school in Cleveland I wanted to go to Cleveland High because people made East Side out to be as bad as the East Side off the movie. However, without a choice I ended up going to East Side and once there I had my first cultural experience with the ideal of white …show more content…
I was very uncomfortable but I didn’t let it bother me. By the end of the semester, I still did not know any of their names and I had never had a conversation with any of them. One particular experience was when I was paired with a white male student for a biology experiment and we barely discussed anything. He seemed as if he was more uncomfortable about the situation more than I was. I can say that I could blame the lack of diversity in my other schools that prevented me and still prevents me from working effectively with people of the opposite race. Other culture that I had come across while in high school influenced me to be more open minded and increased my curiosity about other people in the world. I think I ended up learning more about people from different cultures through the different restaurants they ended up building in the area. Once I started making acquaintance with some new people I started to ask more questions and in return they did the